Deep soils vital for life host an active new microbial phylum, CSP1-3. These microbes may be key to innovative water ...

Researchers bombarded lichens with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that the ...

While previous studies say volcanic or atmospheric lightning may have triggered chemical reactions that created organic ...

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Scientists have discovered a new phylum of microbes in the Earth’s Critical Zone, an area of deep soil that restores water quality. Ground water, which becomes drinking water, passes through where ...

This new simulation acts like a global ... estimate the number of terrestrial species of life on Earth, including all the numbers unknown to science, but it has great potential beyond this in ...

wirestock via Freepik While the origin of life on Earth is still up for debate ... A study published on March 12 in Science Advances offers a new perspective on the Miller-Urey hypothesis ...