Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers. Inside our cells and microbiomes, researchers are uncovering entities that ...

Werner Herzog, visionary that he is, does not believe aliens have visited Earth, but he does think other life forms exist in the universe. He also believes his poetry will outlive his films. Film ...

When you look in a mirror, the reflection is fundamentally you, but with a perfect reversal of all your features. This illustrates a phenomenon we also see in the tiny world of molecules. Some ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new Johns Hopkins University study finds. The work demonstrates that a certain ...