Jake Youngman of Clarendon Hills is going full-steam ahead on a documentary about the Institute in Basic Life Principles and how some of the organization’s followers alleged they were controlled, ...

The Earth was formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago. The first signs of life on our planet emerged soon after (in terms of the Earth's history). However, the conditions back then were very different ...

Scientists report that they have built a living "minimal cell" with a genome stripped down to its barest essentials – and a computer model of the cell that mirrors its behavior. By refining and ...

“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.” Frederic Bastiat, 1848 One of the most basic principles of life is this: For someone to receive ...

Jen Taylor-O’Connor opens up about her research on animal communication and how it helped her heal from trauma Alexandra Schonfeld is a staff editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Researchers have made a breakthrough in one of the most central chemical quirks of life as we know it: homochirality, the uniform 'handedness' of biological molecules. Their new model addressing the ...

Seven years ago, researchers showed that they could strip cells down to their barest fundamentals, creating a life form with the smallest genome that still allowed it to grow and divide in the lab.

Princeton bioengineer Clifford Brangwynne has won the 2023 Breakthrough Prize for Life Sciences, recognizing his contributions to the study of living cells. Brangwynne’s research has changed how ...

For years, young people have complained that their education has not led to a financially or emotionally successful career. I think the problem is a fundamental misunderstanding in the information ...

When a feline gets threatened, it engages in a suite of behaviors that seem to have the purpose of facilitating its own survival. A cat will growl angrily. It will arch its back. And even the fur on ...