Life is remarkably diverse. When you look around the world, you can find such astounding differences between each lifeform.

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

“Mirror life”—a synthetic organism, mirror-reversed on the molecular level from natural life—sounds like an impossibility. And so far, it is—even the simplest mirror bacterium would be dramatically ...

All known natural life uses L (left-handed) amino acids in proteins and D (right-handed) sugars in DNA and RNA. In contrast, mirror life would use D proteins and L sugars — effectively a reversed ...

As frustrating as having an atmosphere can be for physicists, it’s just as bad for astronomers, who have to deal with clouds, ...