organisms

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For a bucket of gravel it’s tedious, for minerals it’s difficult, and for living organisms it’s surely impossible.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

The Ediacaran period occurred before the Cambrian explosion, a major evolutionary turning point when rising oxygen levels helped complex organisms diversify rapidly across Earth's oceans.

From Science Daily • May 12, 2026

If those constants were even slightly different, water, blood, and other life-supporting fluids could behave so differently that complex organisms might never have emerged at all.

From Science Daily • May 8, 2026

This work argues that even if stars and heavy elements still formed, life might remain impossible if liquids could not flow properly inside organisms.

From Science Daily • May 8, 2026

Genes could, in other words, be transmitted between two organisms without any form of reproduction.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee