Earth's oceans could one day turn purple. Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a ...

Mars, today a cold, irradiated, and dry world, once had a much warmer and wetter environment. The planet was covered by lakes ...

A recent study conducted by Japanese researchers has revealed a fascinating new theory about the Earth’s oceans billions of ...

Scientists have helped to construct a detailed timeline for bacterial evolution, suggesting some bacteria used oxygen long before evolving the ability to produce it through photosynthesis.

A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus, gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from their environment, thanks to a bacterial gene picked up by an ancestor.

In a new study published in Science, researchers from the Model-Based Evolutionary Genomics Unit at ... Their findings suggest some bacteria could use trace oxygen long before evolving the ability to ...