In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than ...

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T he Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) project aims to sequence the genomes of all animals, fungi and plants found in Great Britain ...

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Up to 200 worlds investigated by NASA's exoplanet-hunting TESS satellite could be bigger than predicted, a finding that could impact our search for alien life.

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If protected and nurtured, it would almost certainly lead the charge to answer that most existential question of life beyond Earth.

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‘Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

Since the planet Earth formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago, this puts the rocks within a few hundred million years of our planet’s earliest day–somewhat close in geological time.

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest? New research suggests they are.