And yet, our understanding of what life is is changing all the time, thanks to space exploration.. As scientists continue to hunt for life beyond our own world, biologists are having to rethink ...

To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions ...

ABOVE: Nematode in biofilm that lives 1.4 km below ground GAETAN BORGONIE. O rganisms of Earth’s deep underground constitute between 15 billion and 23 billion tons of carbon and occupy an estimated ...

The detection of life beneath the seafloor was the goal of one of the earliest Deep Sea Drilling Projects (DSDP) voyages, Leg 15 in 1970, led by chief scientist Wallace Broecker of Columbia ...

The Deep-Sea Podcast Armatus Oceanic. IT IS hard to imagine what the deep sea actually looks like. There is practically no light in this lowest layer of the ocean, which starts at a depth of 1800 ...

Barely living 'zombie' bacteria and other forms of life constitute an immense amount of carbon deep within Earth's subsurface -- 245 to 385 times greater than the carbon mass of all humans on the ...

Environment Deep-sea life is still recovering from mining activity 40 years ago. The site of a deep-sea mining test in 1979 had lower levels of biodiversity when researchers revisited it in 2023 ...

Ten years of data collected by Italian researchers suggest that approximately 65% of DNA present in the world's oceans is found in deep-sea sediments, and 90% of that DNA is extracellular. This ...

Scientists Find Signs of Life Deep Inside the Earth. by Joe Wilkins. Jan 26, 9:45 AM EST. Emil Ruff. Deep, deep underground. Little Friends. We've heard of underground parties, but this is ridiculous.

Protecting deep sea life. One of the biggest threats to deep-sea ecosystems is proposed deep-sea mining, the process of extracting mineral deposits, like cobalt and nickel, from the deep seabed ...

Researchers at Cambridge University's Institute of Astronomy believe that there is a 99.7% chance of life on K2-18b, a large planet located 700 trillion miles from Earth ...