One of the biggest scientific mysteries is where life on Earth started. Research has often focused on the role of deep-sea ...

A study suggests ancient hot springs, like Yellowstone's, may have supported reactions crucial for the birth of life on our planet.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally admitted that it carried out more than 30 secret reviews last year into cases of serious harm or deaths involving someone receiving universal ...

Billions of years before all of that happened, however, the common ancestor of all living organisms, the last universal common ancestor (Luca), must have existed. Scientists have worked on identifying ...

She likely had no idea it was her last day on Earth ... may have been our direct ancestor. Our discoveries about Lucy have transformed our understanding of humanity's tangled family tree.

The clearest picture yet of our “last universal common ancestor” suggests it was a relatively complex organism living 4.2 billion years ago, a time long considered too harsh for life to flourish. If ...

Do nice guys finish last, or is that a myth? And why do girls seem to love bad boys so much? While some women say they want a good man, being a good man and being a "nice guy" are not the same.