Jake Youngman of Clarendon Hills is going full-steam ahead on a documentary about the Institute in Basic Life Principles and how some of the organization’s followers alleged they were controlled, ...

The Earth was formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago. The first signs of life on our planet emerged soon after (in terms of the Earth's history). However, the conditions back then were very different ...

Scientists report that they have built a living "minimal cell" with a genome stripped down to its barest essentials – and a computer model of the cell that mirrors its behavior. By refining and ...

Seven years ago, researchers showed that they could strip cells down to their barest fundamentals, creating a life form with the smallest genome that still allowed it to grow and divide in the lab.

Researchers have made a breakthrough in one of the most central chemical quirks of life as we know it: homochirality, the uniform 'handedness' of biological molecules. Their new model addressing the ...

Jen Taylor-O’Connor opens up about her research on animal communication and how it helped her heal from trauma Alexandra Schonfeld is a staff editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

When a feline gets threatened, it engages in a suite of behaviors that seem to have the purpose of facilitating its own survival. A cat will growl angrily. It will arch its back. And even the fur on ...

A new documentary series about the Duggar family has thrust the ultra-conservative Christian “19 Kids and Counting” brood back into the spotlight, along with their many controversies and evolutions.

For years, young people have complained that their education has not led to a financially or emotionally successful career. I think the problem is a fundamental misunderstanding in the information ...