LUCA: Our Last Universal Common Ancestor
We started our journey with prokaryote, the earliest form of life on earth. Now scientists are zeroing in on what came before prokaryote:...
Let there be light-eventually
We start off the book and our story with the sudden explosion of our universe into existence known as the big bang. In the next...
Fireflies Synchronize
In chapter two we discuss how seemingly unrelated species-ants, frongs, crickets-and firelies have an unusual ability to synchronize...
Oh oh, something spotted at the beginning of time!
A new Vox article reports that as the new James Webb Space Telescope allows astronomers to look further and further back in time, almost...