Netflix's newest rom-com The Life List is finally here and in case you were wondering, yes, it's based on the hit Lori Nelson Spielman book of the same name. It tells the story of a young woman ...

Tree of life with one branch fewer In recent years ... the ETH researchers explored details of the cellular structure and architecture of Lokiarchaeum ossiferum. Originating in the sediments ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon ... Where diamond has a regular crystal structure, graphene (or at least the Platonic ideal of graphene) is a flat, single-atom-thick sheet of ...

A new study focusing on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, shows that the physics of alien oceans could prevent evidence of deep-sea life from reaching places where we can detect it. Searching for life ...

Chipmakers turn to silicon for its crystal structure ... kinds of life forms that move around their environment. One other problem: silicon is heavier than carbon, so every silicon atom takes ...

Though left-handed sugars aren't used by any known life, scientists can create them—but now, researchers say they shouldn't. Yuichiro Chino On Thursday, a group of notable scientists ...

"If life exists in Titan's ocean under the thick ... in which a large amount of methane is trapped within the crystalline structure of water, creating a solid similar to ice.

LISA PRATT: We know of no other atom that has the flexibility ... direct evidence of a biosphere on our planet. NEIL deGRASSE TYSON: If it emerged so early, life was lucky to miss the greatest ...

1 School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China 2 School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China Single-atom nanozymes (SAzymes ...

It’s essential for life—a key ingredient in both DNA and ... which must fix enough nitrogen to keep the biosphere’s machinery running. For most of human history, the world’s diazotrophs ...

“DON’T be excited,” says Sara Seager. She is talking about putative signs of life from observations of the atmospheres of other worlds, and her words are a sobering counterbalance to ...