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Dive into the hidden world beneath Earth's surface, where diverse microbial life thrives in extreme conditions.

Thirty-eight scientists wrote a paper arguing that researchers should abandon all attempts to create mirror life cells. But ...

By establishing the biggest paleobiology database of early Earth to date and employing cutting-edge analytical tools, ...

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The Parker Solar Probe, traveling at 430,000 mph, reaches 3.8 million miles from the Sun. Scientists now wait for a signal ...

Which microbes thrive below us in darkness -- in gold mines, in aquifers, in deep boreholes in the seafloor -- and how do they compare to the microbiomes that envelop the Earth's surfaces, on land and ...

According to Meloth, the discovery validates the investment in the blue economy and boosts scientists' confidence to continue ...

“We can spend a couple weeks up here, and we start to forget about life on Earth,” he tells me. “First you forget the day of the week. Then you start forgetting to call your family.