In this next chapter, the story expands beyond biology, asking what life might become once it moves past its organic roots.

Aran Nayebi jokes that his robot vacuum has a bigger brain than his two cats. But while the vacuum can only follow a preset ...

Traditional solar fails in the windswept north. Two Swedish inventors are betting on aerodynamic resilience to solve the ...

The classic thought experiment about a horse-sized duck and a hundred duck-sized horses is more than a joke. It captures a ...

The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...

Paris summit warns about “mirror life.” Scientists call for early limits on mirror bacteria that could evade defenses and ...

Renee Good won a national prize six years ago for her poem "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs," which muses on science and ...

We have all been there. You are in a dead-silent room, perhaps during a serious meeting or a solemn ceremony, and suddenly a wave of amusement hits you. You try your absolute best to stay composed, ...

The first cold day in Delhi was reportedly recorded on January 6, with a temperature of 7.6 degrees Celsius, which is considered 0.7 degrees below normal. According to the India Meteorological ...

Fungal infections kill millions of people each year, and modern medicine is struggling to keep up. But researchers at ...

The bigger problem in your cookie dough, at least by volume, is actually the flour. Surprise! And while getting sick from raw ...

Tadeo Ramirez-Parada studied the timing of plant flowering for his PhD — but he didn’t touch a single petal. Instead, he ...