When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

The work by Professors Tlusty and Libchaber, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has appeared in PNAS on January 20, 2025. This study proposes a ...

Scientists reveal cells can transform into new life forms after death, challenging everything we know about biology. This ...

The conclusion here is straightforward. Biology is the science of life, defined as a new plane of existence that emerged because of the evolution of a novel kind of information processing ...

Mysterious Blobs Found inside Cells Are Rewriting the Story of How Life Works Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are ...

Dr. Arendt began his career at the USDA Forest Service's International Institute of Tropical Forestry in San Juan, Puerto ...

Discover how scientists blend biology, synthetic biology, and astrobiology to speculate on alien life forms, focusing on the ...

Presents environmental and organismal structural interrelationships and relates these to the chemical evolutionary basis of life. Not suitable for credit towards any degree in the Division of Sciences ...

Some biologists speculate that animals will get smaller with global warming to reduce heat stress. While this may be true of warm-blooded animals, what about exotherms like insects? Thanks to a ...

A team of European researchers is currently aiming to create simple synthetic life forms from scratch using molecules that ...

The interactive and stimulating environment of Brandeis University fosters thinking "outside the box," where biophysical and genetic approaches merge with the tools of biochemistry and molecular ...