Extremophiles that thrive in the most unforgiving environments aren’t just biological curiosities. Understanding their ...

The biologist’s bold “energetic view of life” looks to the body’s strangest organelles as the link between cells, health, and ...

Today’s computers need safeguards against random energy fluctuations. Thermodynamic computers would put those fluctuations to ...

The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of ...

W hen I was first learning to write, my letters and words ran from right to left, reversed as if in a mirror. Being ...

Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their elasticity. But a crack in a nonelastic simple ...

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the ...

Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a wealth of new theories to explain them. Now they just need to figure out which ...

The cells of animals, plants, and fungi start their lives by being torn apart. Cells are born by division, and just before a parent cell becomes two daughters, it doubles its nuclear DNA and carefully ...

Seventy years ago, the physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines took a custom-built 10-ton detector, surrounded it with thick lead walls and wet sandbags, and placed it near a powerful nuclear ...

Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their elasticity. But a crack in a nonelastic simple ...