While many of life's mysteries remain unsolved, every biologist can describe the basic processes performed by a living organism, including energy use, reproduction, growth and development. While these ...

While these are not artificial life forms created entirely from scratch, the work demonstrates an unprecedented level of control over the genetic software that powers living cells — and could reshape ...

Sharmon Lebby is a writer and sustainable fashion stylist who studies and reports on the intersections of environmentalism, fashion, and BIPOC communities. The Life Cycle Assessment, or LCA, is a ...

Periodical cicadas have one of the strangest life cycles in the animal kingdom. The 17-year cicadas spend 99.5% of their lives underground in an undeveloped nymph state, which is the longest strictly ...

Some biologists speculate that animals will get smaller with global warming to reduce heat stress. While this may be true of warm-blooded animals, what about exotherms like insects? Thanks to a ...

Artificial cells assembled from non-living chemical components have been created to ingest nutrients, grow, divide into two, ...