Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

Measuring shells and skeletons encased in thousands of limestone samples has revealed that the sheer amount of living stuff ...

A group of scientists has found an astonishing diversity of microorganisms in tiny pools of melted ice in Antarctica, suggesting that life could have ridden out Snowball Earth in similar ponds ...

Earth has not always been so hospitable to live. During several ice ages, the planet's surface was almost completely frozen over, creating what has been dubbed "Snowball Earth".

When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that dotted the planet’s icy surface. In a study appearing in Nature ...

Gut contains millions of tiny viruses that actually help keep you healthy by controlling harmful bacteria and supporting your ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

In 2018, Roger Summons, Schlumberger Professor of Geobiology at MIT and head of the Summons Lab in MIT’s Department of Earth, led a team to study meltwater ponds on Antarctica’s McMurdo Ice Shelf.

A global effort to create a "microbial Noah's Ark" to preserve the world's diverse collection of healthy microbes before they disappear is now entering an active growth phase.

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...