Biologists mapping the human body have long assumed that every major kind of microscopic life inside us already had a place ...

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

(CN) — In a study published Thursday that details ongoing international efforts to combat certain incurable diseases, scientists made an open call for research involving viral vaccines and artificial ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Researchers believe they discovered a new type of life form living in the human body that were previously misidentified as viruses. According to a new study from bioRxiv that has ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

Comedian, actor and author Jenny Slate knows how to add her own spin to an event. When Slate showed up in Boston to read from her new book, “Life Form,” she brought a harpist to accompany her, Alix ...

Primitive life forms thrived on Mars around the same time prehistoric life was developing in Earth’s oceans — but the Red Planet’s denizens doomed themselves, a new study suggests. Mars’ ...

In our high school chemistry classes we all learn about chirality, the property of organic molecules in which two chemically identical molecules can have different structures that are mirror images of ...

The idea of panspermia is that life originated on another planet, which was then impacted to eject material into space, which then migrated to planet Earth, seeding our world with the earliest life ...

In our high school chemistry classes we all learn about chirality, the property of organic molecules in which two chemically identical molecules can have different structures that are mirror images of ...