Evolution is perhaps the most extraordinary story ever told—a tale spanning billions of years that connects every living thing on Earth through an intricate web of shared ancestry. From the tiniest ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun ...

The discovery of the Archaea by Carl Woese and co-workers in the 1970s is one of the most paradigm-shifting scientific discoveries of the twentieth century 1. Woese’s seminal work resulted in an ...