Million-year-old dormant microbes beneath ocean floor push life to its absolute limits
Zombified cells found in sediments deep beneath the ocean floor use slightly more than a zeptowatt of power to survive.
Tag: life
Researchers list the 10 lifestyle choices most likely to kill you
What doesn't kill you might, in fact, only be slowly killing you.
Australian men have the longest life expectancy
Men live longest in the land of baking deserts and venomous everything.
Scientists uncover new insights into the origin of life
The conditions necessary to form the building blocks of life are more feasible than meets eyes.
If you want to find your passion, keep a first-person perspective on life
What we experience sometimes doesn't fit with what we think about ourselves -- keeping a first-person perspective helps cut through ...
Iron-breathing bacteria might have delayed Earth’s oxygenation for almost one billion years
Inhale iron, exhale rust.
Mars may have been habitable more than 4.4 billion years ago
The story of life on Mars -- if there ever was such a thing -- may have started much earlier ...
What is soil? Here’s the inside scoop
The Earth's great recycle bin.
Robots and AI can help us better understand deep sea species, study reports.
We're fishing for information in the deep seas.
Building blocks of life can spontaneously form in outer space
Biology -- it may literally be out of this world.
Nuclear-powered ‘tunnelbot’ could probe the depths of Europa’s oceans
Europa's almost as cold as your ex's heart, just as frozen.
Mars may yet hold life in salty subsurface waters
Mars may be more life-friendly than we thought.
It Is Possible Jupiter Could Support Life, Scientists Say
The chances of it happening are pretty slim though.
Ancient volcanism shows our emissions can trigger a mass marine extinction
Ancient volcanism offers a glimpse into the future effects of climate change.
The Earth had continental crust much earlier than thought — potentially life, too
The Earth's 'young' phase might have been much shorter than we assume.
What if we’re not the first advanced civilization on Earth — How would we know?
This is not about conspiracy theories, but a legitimate scientific concern.
Mass extinctions don’t come out of the blue — and we’re seeing some of the signs today
An incoming mass extinction isn't as hard to spot as we'd believed.
Silicon-based life on Earth? Only artificially, so far — but maybe natural on other planets
A team of researchers forced bacteria to create carbon-silicon bonds, and their experiment showcases why life on our planet chose ...
Meteorites carrying both water and organic compounds point to an ocean world “seeding life” in the universe
Why spread your seed across the Earth when you can spread it across space?