JADES-GS-z14-0, the farthest known galaxy, has oxygen, a heavier element than scientists would expect to find just 300 million years after the Big Bang. Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser illustration ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Life on Earth began over four billion years ago, not long ...

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Scientists have identified the most ancient DNA ever discovered, and in the process revealed a complex ecosystem that existed two million years ago in modern day Greenland, according to the results of ...