Exobiology

Scripps Research Team Proves Plausibility of New Primordial Pathway to Life's Chemical Building Blocks

7 Feb 2012

For decades, chemists considered a chemical pathway known as the formose reaction the only route for producing sugars essential for life to begin, but more recent research has called into question the plausibility of such thinking.

Global Extinction: Gradual Doom as Bad as Abrupt

4 Feb 2012

The deadliest mass extinction of all took a long time to kill 90 percent of Earth's marine life--and it killed in stages--according to a newly published report. It shows that mass extinctions need not be sudden events.

Global Extinction Need Not be Sudden Events.

4 Feb 2012

The deadliest mass extinction of all took a long time to kill 90 percent of Earth's marine life--and it killed in stages--according to a newly published report.