Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China ...

The international team, including researchers from the University of Bristol, in the UK, and led by the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), in Japan, used a key evolutionary turning ...

A key turning point was when oxygen accumulated in the atmosphere around 2.3 billion years ago. Scientists have used this oxygen surge and how microbes adapted to it to map out bacterial evolution.

Theoretical Molecular Science Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan Department of Chemistry, Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences, University ...