All life on Earth comes from one single ancestor. And it's so much older than we thought. All life on Earth can be traced ...
Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...
They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar system, ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. We’ve pieced together a remarkably detailed timeline of ...
The origins of complex, nucleated cellular life – everything from amoebas to humans – may date back a lot further in Earth's ...
Recently, astrophysicist Avi Loeb claimed that 3I/ATLAS boasts a “heartbeat”-like pulse that could provide evidence of the ...
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A new model increases the probability of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, upending the decades-old “hard steps” theory that intelligent life was an incredibly improbable event on Earth. Are ...