Life has its speed limits!
Definition of life:
The laws of life
What is life? It's a tricky, often confusing question
Early chemistry of life on Earth:
Building blocks of life
Untangling life's origins
The chiral puzzle of life
How did life on Earth begin?
Labyrinths as crucibles of life
The periodic table of proteins
Unlocking the chemistry of life
Scientists discover 'legos of life'
Earth's soils hosted life early on
Sorting the wheat from the chaff
Early life on Earth limited by enzyme
Bleach a possible key to life on Earth
Finding iron's role in life on early Earth
Ammonium fertilized early life on Earth
Ancient minerals: which gave rise to life?
A chemical clue to how life started on Earth
Nitrogen in ancient rocks a sign of early life
Enzyme that could explain the origins of life
Missing links brewed in primordial puddles?
Earliest life emerged in mildly acidic oceans
Protein-like structures from the priordial soup
A single molecule in the building blocks of life
A grand new theory of life's evolution on Earth
Origins of life? Biologists study offers new clues
How did Earth's primitive chemistry get started?
Discovery demystifies origin of life phenomenon
Mapping amino acids to understand life's origins
Study offers new theory for how life first emerged
Molecules assemble in water, hint at origins of life
Earliest life may have arisen in ponds, not oceans
Were hot, humid summers the key to life's origins?
Why Earth's cracked crust may be essential for life
The Universe's first type of molecule is found at last
New study outlines 'water world' theory of life's origins
Life's building blocks form in replicated deep sea vents
What sparked the origin of life modeled by researchers
Study tests theory that life originated at deep sea vents
Researchers propose new way to look at the dawn of life
Shape shifting protocells hint at the mechanics of early life
A timescale for the origin and evolution of all of life on Earth
Water-air interfaces in rock pores helped spawn life on Earth
Hydrothermal vents could explain chemical precursors to life
New clues to chemical origins of metabolism at the dawn of life
Scientists identify protein that may have existed when life began
Scientists find new evidence of key ingredient during dawn of life
Kinetic analysis questions chemistry proposed for the origin of life
Examining how terrestrial life's building blocks may have first formed
Pre-life building blocks spontaneously align in evolutionary experiment
Reserchers reveal hidden rules of genetics for how life on Earth began
Scientists focus on mineral for clues to beginning of biological life on Earth
Natural affinities - unrecognized until now - may have set stage for life to ignite
New synthesis method imitates the way molecules were formed at the dawn of life
Lightning strikes as a major facilitator of prebiotic phosphorous reduction on early Earth
The building blocks of DNA and RNA could have appeared together before life began on Earth
Natural pH gradients in hydrothermal alkali vents were unlikely to have played a role in the origin of life
Energetics of life:
Life's origin in a prebiotic fuel cell
Power behind priordial soup discovered
Water and power: can electrical energy give rise to life?
Lightning had difficulty forming in early Earth's atmosphere
Geologic evidence that volcanic lightning promotes life on Earth
Electricity-driven undersea reactions may have been important for the emergence of life
Cellular life:
How did multicellular life evolve?
A single-celled organism capable of learning
Researcher unearths ancient multicellular fossils
Origin of life emerged from cell membrane bioenergetics
How and why single cell organisms evolved into multicellular life
Scientists discover new chemistry that may help explain the origins of cellular life
Microbial evidence of early life on Earth:
When life went global
Scientists unlock a 'microbial Pompei'
Discovered: the oldest fossils on Earth
Microbial mats offer clues to life on early Earth
A break in the search for the origin of complex life
Microbes spotted on blades of ice high in the Andes
Life may have thrived on Earth 3.2 billion years ago
New evidence emerges on the origins of life on Earth
Scientists resolve a 3.5 billion-year-old mystery of life
How priordial life on Earth might have replicated itself
Life's engines: how microbes made tthe Earth habitable
The beautiful intelligence of bacteria and other microbes
The slow-motion bacteria buried deep in the ocean's floor
Ancient rocks reveal hot spot of sulphur-breathing bacteria
Large bacterial population colonized land 2.75B years ago
Discovery in Yellowstone 'extremely relevant' to origin of life
Looking back 3.8 billion years into the root of the 'Tree of Life'
Modern microbial ecosystems provide window to early life on Earth
Bacterial resistance to copper in the making for thousands of years
Scientists develop new method for studying early life in ancient rocks
Earliest signs of life: scientists find microbial remains in ancient rocks
Bacteria perfected protein complexes more than 3.5 billion years ago
Parasites reveal how evolution has molded an ancient nuclear structure
Biochemical fossil shows how life may have emerged without phosphate
Portion of ancient Australian chert microstructures definitely pseudo-fossils
Ancient rocks show life could have flourished on Earth 3.2 billion years ago
Oldest evidence of life on land found in 3.48 billion-year-old Australian rocks
Microfossils of sulphur-metabolizing cells in 3.4-billion-year-old rocks of Western Australia
Life on Earth likely started at least 4.1 billion years ago - much earlier than scientists had thought
Advances in life forms:
How did life learrn to breathe?
A pragmatic view on the evolution of life
Fossil of oldest known land-dweller identified
A break in the search for the origin of complex life
Wealth of unsuspected new microbes expands tree of life
Ocean toxicity hampered the rapid evolution of complex life
Without this gene, life might not have evolved beyond slime
Mushroom rises from fungus buried in sea for 20 million years
Researchers discover missing link in the evolution of complex cells
Complex life emerged on land much earlier than previously thought
Earth's first ecosystems were more complex than previously thought
Researchers unearth why deep oceans gave life to the first big, complex organisms
New giant virus may help scientists better understand the emergence of complex life
New evidence of ancient multicellular life sets evolutionnary timeline back 60 million years
New study sheds light on the rise of mammals - flowering plants, new teeth and no dinosaurs
Animal life:
Revolution averted
The origins of abiotic species
Microbes set the stage for first animals
Eukaryotes: a new timetable of evolution
Migratory birds disperse seeds long distances
Before animals, evolution waited eons to inhale
Evolution from water to land led to better parenting
Yes, computing genetic ancestors is super accurate
Earth's earlieast animals were strange sea-creatures
How chewing like a cow helped early mammals thrive
New study shakes the roots of the dinosaur family tree
What if the story of life on Earth isn't what you think it is?
Study shows how early Earth kept warm enough to support life
Animals took first breaths after small oxygen blip in atmosphere
How did life arrive on land? A billion-year old fungus may hold clues
Evolution may have moved at a furious pace on a much warmer Earth
High-tech analysis of proto-mammal fossil clarifies mammalian family tree
Exceptionally preserved Jurassic sea life found in new Canadian fossil site
Inventive processes in Nature: from information origin in chemical evolution to technological exhaustion
Analysis of gene regions reveals conservation of novel non-coding sequences in a wide range of animals
Evolution of humans:
Diet shaped human evolution
New light on human evolution
Shouldering the burden of evolution
Ancient virus determines babies' sex
Mapping the 'dark matter' of human DNA
Big toe's big bone holds evolutionary key
Human mutation rate has slowed recently
Linking climate change and human evolution
This face changes the human story. But how?
Researchers find human development first gear
New fossil pushes back Homo genus 400,000 years
Scientists have found the oldest known human fossils
Two-million-year-old skull of human 'cousin' unearthed
Acorn worm genome reveals origins of human pharynx
Human ancestors were 'grounded', new analysis shows
Fossil DNA reveals new twists in modern human origins
Our ancestors evolved faster after the dinosaur extinction
Newfound footprints stir debate over our ancestor's sex lives
Cadaver arms suggest human fists evolved for punching, too
Large heads, narrow pelvises and difficult childbirth in humans
Investigating the case of human nose shape and climate adaptation
Human genome was shaped by an evolutionary arms race with itself
Prehistoric conflict hastened human brain's capacity for collaboration
No bones needed: ancient DNA in soil can tell if humans were around
Fossil analysis pushes back human split from other primates by 2 million years
Drimolen cranium DNH155 documents microevolution in an early hominin species
New analysis suggests body size increase did not play a role in the origins of Homo Genus
Sonic hedgehog gene provides evidence that our limbs may have evolved from sharks' gills
Primate evolution: mechanism discovered that creates 'clusters of mutations' that affect traits
Human brains evolved to be more responsive to environmental, social and cultural influences
Human DNA shows traces of 40 million-year battle for suvival between primate and pathogen
Extraterrestrial influences on life on Earth:
Did solar flares cook up life on Earth?
Cosmic rays may have given life its shape
Asteroid impacts could create niches for life
Complex sugars cooked up from 'comet ice'
'Alien bugs' discovered in Earth's atmosphere
Meteorite impacts can create DNA building blocks
Is earthly life premature from a cosmic perspective?
Life on earth shockingly comes from out of this world
Fossil discoveries challenge ideas about Earth's start
Cosmic impacts might help synthesize organic compounds
Extraterrestrial ribose and other sugars in primitive meteorites
Ancient supernovae buffeted Earth's biology with radiation dose
Insights into evolution of life on Earth from one of Saturn's moons
Nearby supernova explosions may have affected human evolution
Slow-moving rocks better odds that life crashed to Earth from space
Molecuar evolution: how the building blocks of life may form in space
Young Sun-like star shows a magnetic field was critical for life on early Earth
Life from outer space?
Aliens in our midst
Life, but not as we know
Meet the endoterrestrials
B3: the vitamin from outer space
Earth and Mars could share a life history
Did life on Earth actually begin on Mars?
Astronomers unveiling life's cosmic origins
Interstellar seeds could create oases of life
If life can make it here, it can make it anywhere
Impact glass on Mars may possess evidence of life
Space kombucha in the search for life and its origins
The physics origin of the heirarchy of bodies in space
Extraterrestrial life probably exists. So how do we find it?
Universe's first life might have been born on carbon planet
Life's building blocks recreated under space-like conditions
Astronomers find star material could be building block of life
NASA-funded research discovers life built with toxic chemical
Dwarf star 200 light-years away contains life's building blocks
Telescope detects key feature of life outside our Solar System
Clues to life on Mars may live in the mine-dwelling 'deveil worm'
How did life become complex, and could it happen beyond Earth?
Alien hunters detect mysterious radio signal from Proxima Centauri
Amino acid and phosphorous found in comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Rotating ring of complex organic molecules discovered around newborn star
Super salty, subzero Arctic water provides peek at possible life on other planets
Newly discovered salty subglacial lakes could help search for life in Solar System
Geobiology: Evidence for early life on Earth and the search for life on other planets
Chemical sleuthig unravels possible path to the formation of life's building blocks in space
Scientists develop new method to extract cyanide from meteorites, discover potential link to origins of life