The earliest forms of animal life on our planet continue to fascinate scientists, who are seeking to unravel the mystery of ...

SAN DIEGO — The landscape of our planet is changing. Every form of life is being impacted by climate change and that includes plants. Researchers at the Salk Institute have created a new technology to ...

Kate Adamala started work on a cell in which the natural molecular structure is reversed. Then a possible doomsday scenario became clear.

What is life? Like most great questions, this one is easy to ask but difficult to answer. Scientists have been trying for centuries, and philosophers have done so for millennia. Today our knowledge is ...

Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.

A human cell is a Rube Goldberg machine like no other, full of biological chain reactions that make the difference between ...

Scientists have debated the definition of life for decades, but they still lack a consensus on the answer. Experts believe that "edge cases" make life difficult to define and blur boundaries across ...