A machine-learning breakthrough could lift the veil on Earth’s early history—and supercharge the search for alien life ...

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AI-powered chemical analysis uncovered faint biological fingerprints in some of Earth’s oldest rocks, pushing back the origins of oxygen-producing life.

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A new study uncovered fresh chemical evidence of life in rocks more than 3.3 billion years old, along with molecular traces showing that oxygen-producing photosynthesis emerged nearly a billion years ...

For photosynthesis, one photon is all it takes. Only a single particle of light is required to spark the first steps of the biological process that converts light into chemical energy, scientists ...

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Scientists uncover new evidence of early life on Earth using advanced molecular analysis and machine learning.

New study reveals tiny chemical clues in ancient rocks, showing that early life and early photosynthesis appeared much earlier than thought.

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Humans owe a lot to photosynthesis, the process by which green plants turn water and carbon dioxide into the food we eat and the air we breathe. But this 3.5-billion-year-old biochemical process is ...