While this may seem like pure fantasy, a recent study suggests that a “third state” of existence might actually be present in ...

Here’s how it works. Everything alive today descends from a cell that lived 4.2 billion years ago, just a few hundred million years after Earth formed, new research suggests. That last universal ...

This discovery shows that LUCA lived further back in time than we thought. It reveals that life on Earth started in a surprisingly complex and active environment, full of other life forms and viruses.

Because phosphates lie at the heart of almost every chemical reaction in the human body, scientists from California-based Scripps research had a hunch that a phosphate process known as ...

T-Mobile partnered with SpaceX to deliver a the first successful wireless emergency alert in the U.S. without Earth-based ...

Details released on the conditions that Sean 'Diddy' Combs and other inmates may be dealing with while incarcerated in ...

Schematic of the solar cell Image: Swansea University, Acta Astronautica, Creative Commons License CC BY 4.0 Tested on earth, the cell achieved an average power conversion efficiency of 12.1% ...

Life as we know it relies on small quantities of metals to perform essential biological functions like breathing, DNA ...

We also use the term for things that are not living, like cell phones. The life cycle for anything you buy includes getting the materials from the earth, making the parts, delivering the product from ...

Everything alive today descends from a cell that lived 4.2 billion years ago, just a few hundred million years after Earth formed, new research suggests. That last universal common ancestor, which ...