These are the key pieces of evidence that convinced me something major is missing from our history books. A great starting ...

A machine-learning-enhanced approach to chemical analysis is drastically expanding the chemical record of life on Earth, and ...

Kissing is an ancient trait retained over the course of evolution amongst the large apes, reveal scientists at the University of Oxford and Florida Institute of Technology.

About 5,000 years ago, people living in what is now Iran began extracting copper from rock by processing ore, an activity ...

Interest in Martian life had been spurred by a now infamous announcement from the White House lawn in 1996, when President ...

Washington, DC— Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists found ...

A new study has shed new light on ancient seafarers and their advanced maritime technology, challenging previous beliefs on ...

While there is fossil evidence of life older than 3.3bn years, this is the first time that its molecular chemical fingerprints have been detected through high-tech sleuthing.

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered the earliest chemical evidence of life on Earth in a discovery that could revolutionise our ...

Scientists have developed a new way to hunt for hidden signals of past life, and say it could assist in the search for ...