A new study proposes a framework for understanding living matter as a cascade of machines making machines, extending from the atomic scale to the scale of the entire biosphere. What is life?

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the ...

Fragments of the asteroid Bennu, carefully collected and ferried to Earth by a robotic spacecraft, contain the building blocks for life, NASA announced today. NASA ‘fist bumps’ an asteroid to reveal ...

Ice cores are climate scientists’ best way of understand Earth’s climate in the recent ... It’s not exactly a time machine, but it’s a damn good substitute. Darren lives in Portland ...