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

An ambitious, multinational research project co-led by the University at Buffalo has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity ...

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 ...

Using your smartphone or other computer devices, a set of cloud-based virtual globes can let you visualise the geological evolution of planet Earth with unprecedented speed and ease of use.