The discovery, published in Nature, opens a new window on early animal evolution.
Researchers from the universities of Cambridge and Western Australia have uncovered the importance of hydrothermal vents, similar to underwater...
How did the molecular building blocks for life end up on Earth? One long-standing theory is that they could have been delivered by comets. Now...
A new postgraduate programme will train researchers to understand life's origins, search for habitable planets and consider the most profound...
Scientists from the University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Harvard University, and the University of Chicago have founded the Origins Federation, which...
The problem of how phosphorus became a universal ingredient for life on Earth may have been solved by researchers from the University of Cambridge...
With a £10 million grant awarded by the Leverhulme Trust , the University of Cambridge is to establish a new research centre dedicated to exploring...
The University of Cambridge is creating a new research initiative, bringing together physicists, chemists, biologists, mathematicians and earth...
Scientists have identified a group of planets outside our solar system where the same chemical conditions that may have led to life on Earth exist...
Darwin College continues the popular Darwin College lecture series this week on 27 January with Life in Ruins. The annual eight week series held at...
Rotifers are tiny animals that survive against all the odds...