The evidence for the so-called "spark of life" has taken portions of the Internet by storm. In case you've missed the stories, researchers at the Chicago campus of Northwestern University were able to ...

The University of New England's newest exhibit, “Spark of Life: Abstraction, Microscopy, and Discovery,” explores the intersection of art and science. Through innovative works, the exhibit invites ...

Zapping clay with a high-power laser is all it took to re-create the original spark of life on Earth. A bit more specifically, researchers used the Prague-based Asterix Laser System to zap clay in an ...

A female firefighter dies in the line of duty. Before her death, she signed an organ donation contract and her heart is transplanted, to a badly wounded firefighter and a critically ill girl. Two ...

When the first spark of life emerged on a young, ocean-covered Earth some four billion years ago, it didn’t happen at once. The process was slow and drawn out over eons, with lifeless chemicals slowly ...