New insights into the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum and its effects on ocean acidification illustrate parallels with human ...

"The PETM, which lasted about 200,000 years, provides a natural analog for what unchecked carbon emissions could do today," ...

Li Mingsong at Peking University has provided new insights into the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM ... Ocean pH declined by 0.46 units, from 7.91 to 7.45, causing widespread disruptions to ...

Shostak thinks that when we find a signal from an ET intelligence it might not have come from a life form at all. "Personally—if we pick up a signal—I don't expect it would be the result of ...

Life has limits that mean that not everything we can imagine is possible, a multidisciplinary team of scientists has argued. The capacity to rule out some forms of life, based on scientific laws ...

What factors will rein in the Frankensteinian life forms we hope to build in laboratories here on Earth? An open-access paper published in Interface Focus and co-authored by several SFI ...

Scientists have found completely new virus-like entities called "obelisks" hiding in human bodies. The "crazy" new life form is a circular fragment of genetic material that contains one or two genes ...

From Paleocene epoch predators to beloved companions ... of evolutionary development into different environments and into a life from solitary predators into today's petting animals.

“Mirror life” refers to synthetic organisms with molecular structures reversed from those found in natural life. At first glance, creating such life forms seems impossible—and for now, it is. Even the ...

What the researchers uncovered are entities they have chosen to call “obelisks.” They do not resemble typical life forms, and their name comes from their distinctive shape. “The more we look, the ...

Kate Adamala is a synthetic biology researcher and co-author of the paper warning about possible negative consequences of mirror life. (Frame Forward Photography) Every molecule in every form of ...

Mirror life, a concept where life forms are built using mirror-image molecules, is no longer confined to the realms of science fiction. Scientists are now raising alarms about the potential risks ...