Biology — the science of life, living things and the processes that keep us all running — links up in essential ways with many other sciences, such as chemistry, physics and mathematics, which help us ...

AFTER THE second world war, Leo Szilard, a pioneering nuclear physicist who had worked on the Manhattan Project, decided to move into biology instead: life; not death. But there was a problem. As a ...

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Take a minute and imagine a world where biologists do not have a concept of life. We can call this the “No-Concept-of-Life” (NCL) World. In the NCL world, biologists struggle to characterize exactly ...

We could see a mass extinction event, an existential threat to multicellular life as we know it. Effective biocontainment, ...

High in the Himalayas lives a group of people whose biology seems to defy human limits. This video explores the incredible ...

Scientists are researching ways to genetically modify plants and animals to be more resistant to threats like climate change.

The idea of resurrecting the dead once belonged to gothic fiction, but modern science has edged closer to the same questions that inspired Frankenstein. Advances in organ regeneration, electrical ...

Genevieve Carlton holds a Ph.D. in history from Northwestern University and earned tenure at the University of Louisville. Drawing on over 15 years of experience in higher education, Genevieve ...

Assembly Theory is a way to understand how the complexity of life emerged through a mechanism of “self-assembly.” It could explain how life formed on Earth—or other planets—via the shortest path to ...