The surprising discovery of entities smaller than viruses raises profound questions about what life is and how it got started ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

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

A recent study presents a new way to understand life by describing it as a cascade of machines producing machines, spanning ...