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One trillion species, 3 billion years: How we used AI to trace the evolution of bacteria on Earth
One thing geology teaches us about is the existence of another monumental event in the history of Earth, 2.4 billion years ...
Using orbital cycles to understand early life
Chengdu University of Technology-led research has established a high-resolution astrochronological framework spanning ...
How AI uncovered 3 billion years of bacterial evolution across 1 trillion species
Discover the evolution of bacteria through machine learning, DNA comparisons, and the Great Oxidation Event 2.4 billion years ...
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Earth's first crust already had chemical traits of modern continents
Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...
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Machine learning helps construct an evolutionary timeline of bacteria
Scientists have helped to construct a detailed timeline for bacterial evolution, suggesting some bacteria used oxygen long before evolving the ability to produce it through photosynthesis.
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Earth's first bacteria used oxygen about one billion years earlier than we thought
Bacteria used oxygen far earlier than expected, reshaping views on early life, evolution, and photosynthesis origins.
Australian study uses machine learning to reveal early oxygen use in bacteria
A research team constructed a detailed evolutionary timeline of bacteria, revealing that some microbes used oxygen long ...
Existing models of genetic code evolution need revision, study finds
The genetic code acts as life’s instruction manual, telling cells how to build proteins from DNA and RNA. Though it's a ...
Great Lakes basins may have formed millions of years ago from activity deep in the Earth — long before glaciers, study finds
As an ice sheet thousands of feet thick began its final crawling retreat from North America to the Arctic toward the end of the last glacial period some 10,000 years ago, it left behind the planet’s ...