Oxygenic photosynthesis is the main energy input into the biosphere. It has sustained our civilization through agriculture and fossil fuels, and it has sustained a thriving biodiversity over billions ...

From towering trees to the smallest bugs, life on Earth today has been affected by many factors, such as changes in the environment and in our genes. But did you know that billions of years ago ...

If they do exist, scientists think they're good candidates to support microbial life. Hycean worlds are hypothetical, but there is some evidence that they exist. The Kepler mission detected many ...

PSII facilitates the light-driven extraction of electrons from water, the process that releases molecular oxygen and is indeed responsible for the world's oxygenic atmosphere. Understanding the ...

Pockmarks are crater-like depression on the seafloor associated with hydrocarbon ascent through muddy sediments in continental shelves around the world. In this study, we examine the diversity and ...

mutually exclusive categories (oxygenic photoautotrophs and heterotrophs). The Review by Moran and Miller makes it clear that microbial metabolic diversity matters, and that alternative metabolic ...

FIGURE 2. Prevalence (in black) of isoëtalean taxa in micro- and megafossil records (from Lopingian and Triassic Stages until the Rhaetian) in the fossil data compilation by Nowak et al. (2019). The ...

Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Jahnstr. 29, Heidelberg 69120, Germany ...

Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, St. Johanns-Ring 19, 4056 Basel, Switzerland ...