The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

This engineered genome will help experts tailor organisms to fit the needs of their ever-changing environments.

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

A recent study presents a new way to understand life by describing it as a cascade of machines producing machines, spanning ...

The surprising discovery of entities smaller than viruses raises profound questions about what life is and how it got started ...

An international research team reveals how the Antarctic midge, the only native insect of Antarctica, survives extreme cold, ...

One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ...

Attorney generals from 22 states have filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration for slashing funding for medical and ...

Sea turtles have long mystified researchers by returning to beaches where they were hatched, magnetic signals may be the key, new research finds.

How you cope in a crisis and then move on from it may have less to do with your learned life skills and instead be shaped by ...

Piller, an investigative reporter at Science magazine, presents copious evidence of severe fraud, negligence, and ...