Santa keeps a ledger of who’s been naughty or nice. We keep something stranger: a running tally of the moments when science collided with everyday life in ways that felt bizarre, uncanny, or ...

For nearly a century, biologists have relied on a simple rule to predict how microbes grow when food is scarce, a rule that ...

For decades, biology has relied on one central assumption: the genetic code is precise. DNA is transcribed into RNA, RNA is ...

Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of “The Serviceberry,” offers ideas rooted in nature for creating sharing economies as a way to ...

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Elective egg freezing, once largely a medical necessity, has gradually transformed into a planned step in long-term career ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

A combination of two classical biological laws, the global constraint principle delves deeper into complex biological ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

The transition from simple chemistry to the complex biology of molecules that gave rise to life is a puzzle that scientists ...

When 26-year-old Danielle Wilbanks looks at the cost of living, the student loans she’s still carrying and a career path reshaped by the pandemic, she feels like she’s standing on shifting ground.

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