LUCA, short for Last Universal Common Ancestor, is believed to be the single-celled organism from which all life on Earth descended. Estimated to have existed around 4.2 billion years ago, LUCA is ...

The exoplanet K2-18b could harbor a massive ocean, but scientists will need to study the planet more to see if it’s really ...

Scientists just discovered a new phylum of microbes in Earth’s Critical Zone. The Critical Zone—also known as the planet’s ...

And it turns out, according to a recent study, that the prehistoric Earth may have been home to a fourth kind of organism which no longer exists ... name prototaxite means “first yew.” Still, its ...

The classification of a production area determines the treatment required before Live Bivalve Molluscs (shellfish) may be marketed for human consumption. Shellfish production and relay areas are ...

Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it might represent a whole new branch.

Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering, ...

The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly on Thursday approved the report of the One-Man Commission on Sub-Classification of Scheduled Castes headed by Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, a retired IAS officer.

Cellulose is the most abundant biopolymer -- large molecules naturally produced by living organisms -- on Earth. A carbohydrate that is the primary structural component of plant cell walls ...

Module 2 is the Interim Australian National Aquatic Ecosystem (ANAE) Classification Framework. The ANAE is a broad-scale, semi-hierarchical, attribute-based scheme, which provides a nationally ...

The codes used to define wetland types for Ramsar sites are based upon the Ramsar Classification System for Wetland Type as approved by Recommendation 4.7 and amended by Resolutions VI.5 and VII.11 of ...