This article is a summary of Roy Ratcliffe’s recently released book ‘Life on Earth’ (Past, Present and Future)’. Of all the millions of species of life that have existed on earth over billions of ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

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The suicide of popular Russian poet Sergei Esenin generated an outpouring of shock and grief throughout the USSR and beyond.

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Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.