The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

This article is a summary of Roy Ratcliffe’s recently released book ‘Life on Earth’ (Past, Present and Future)’. Of all the millions of species of life that have existed on earth over billions of ...

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...