Chris Impey receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. We have only one example of biology forming in the universe – life on Earth. But what if life ...

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. However, the emergence of new multicellular life forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies beyond the ...

One of the best ways to learn how Antarctic sea spiders thrive under extreme conditions is to squeeze their guts out through their legs. That's what a Northeastern University biologist is doing to ...

A team of researchers studied the properties of membranes to understand how these cellular structures influenced the chemistry of life on Earth as it began. How life arose remains a looming question ...

Researchers demonstrated how amino acids could spontaneously attach to RNA under early Earth-like conditions using thioesters, providing a long-sought clue to the origins of protein synthesis. This ...

Lifestyle factors impact longevity, but so does DNA. Scientists reveal exactly how heritable lifespan is. The findings are much different than previous studies on the subject. This study is different ...