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Life is ancient – it emerged on Earth about four billion years ago. We consider how it began and whether we might find life elsewhere. Video by Thomas Lewton Animation by Charity Atukunda From ...

In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The ...

Challenge students to the evidence that we have for how life began on Earth. Challenge them to order the evidence as to what they find the most persuasive and why. This clip will be relevant for ...

Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth life.

What can they tell us about how life started on Earth, and how it may exist on other planets? NOVA: Is this a risky endeavor? Delaney: There's always a risk, I think, when you're trying to do ...

Researchers have innovatively merged protein structural data with genetic sequences to construct evolutionary trees, ...

All life on Earth is made of complex organic molecules ... Most scientists think that everything that we know and experience began with the Big Bang, 14 billion years ago. But how can we have ...

it could provide answers to some of humanity’s burgeoning questions like how did life begin in the universe, even before it started on Earth? “We still don’t know the origin of life on Earth ...