Estimates on when the planet’s inner core may have solidified — when iron first crystallized at the center of the planet — once ranged from 500 million to 2.5 billion years ago. The research ...

Researchers are studying one of the best-preserved trilobite fossils ever discovered, which are about 500 million years old. The well-preserved and three-dimensional fossils recovered from the ...

Evolution has been fine-tuning life at the molecular level for billions of years. Proteins, the fundamental building blocks ...

A startup founded by former Meta researchers is creating an alternative evolutionary path using the most powerful ...

But around 635 million years ago, that began to change. The first large, multi-celled organisms appeared, like cnidarians (including corals and jellies) and sponges. Then, about 540 million years ...

It’s been trained on 771 billion unique tokens – the AI term for a unit of data – taken from databases of natural protein ...

The nautilus has existed on Earth for around 500 million years and are certainly ... This ancient fish was once thought to have died out 65 million years ago, until it was rediscovered ...

which date to about 500 million years ago. Now, in a study published today (July 28) in Nature, Elizabeth Turner, a geologist at Laurentian University in Canada, identified structures in ...

Leveraging the power of large language models, evolutionary biologists have successfully simulated 500 million years of evolution. Called the EvolutionaryScale Model 3, or ESM3, this multimodal ...

According to the researchers, this was like giving the model 500 million years of evolutionary knowledge, which allowed it to start with basic code that evolved over virtual time into a modern ...