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 ...

What is a good life, and how can we create it? Forty-plus years of research has pointed to two answers. The first says that a good life is a happy life, one created by pursuing comfort, satisfaction ...

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

If the results had held up, the discovery of microbes that use arsenic instead of phosphorus in their biochemistry would have forever changed astrobiology. The controversial claim of microbes that ...

Science, a top research journal, said there was no evidence of misconduct by researchers whose finding attracted heavy attention and scrutiny in social media’s early days. By Sarah Scoles Sarah Scoles ...