New research from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge has shed light on how plants precisely control ...

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“We have this idea that this was a fairly complex organism, already possibly by the time of like 4.2 billion years ago.” Scientists as far back as biologist Charles Darwin have proposed that ...

especially in the transition from simple single cell organisms to complex organisms like animals and plants. "We already know that increases in marine phosphorus and seawater oxygen concentrations ...

But scientists have found that a more complex organism — a single-celled alga with a nucleus — can do it, too, thanks to a newly identified piece of cellular architecture. They're calling it ...

Earth’s earliest forms of life, such as microbes, cyanobacteria, sponges and seafloor-dwelling organisms, populated the ...

"The availability of phosphorus in the environment is thought to be a key component in the evolution of life on Earth, especially in the transition from simple single-cell organisms to complex ...

“This could give us hints of how early life evolved from these squishy brainless things into these complex organisms building spaceships,” Dr. Ushijima said.