Scientists Alarmed After Finding 'Highly Toxic' Goo Spread Across Earth's Ocean Floor ...

A team of biochemists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has developed a faster way to identify molecules in the ...

Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth shared a common ancestor.

All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ancestor" represents the ...

All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ...

Researchers describe a rare type of gene family, known as “universal paralogs”, that provides insight into evolutionary history predating the last universal common ancestor of all life. Detailed ...