"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life could travel between planetary bodies.

Scientists simulated an asteroid impact, and Deinococcus radiodurans’ cell membranes made it through. This suggests that life-forms flung into space by violent impacts may have colonized planets and ...

Top Prize Editor’s Choice by Jesse Plotkin, Department of Neuroscience and Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research Every year, the College of Natural Sciences invites faculty, staff and ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Jessica Chastain reprises her role as Dr. Madeline Wyle in the series featuring Bobby Cannavale, Michael Shannon, Michael Stuhlbarg, Carmen Ejogo ...

As metals fuse and sparks fly, one researcher’s work takes the form of DNA, a bacteriophage, a nucleosome, and more.

I don’t know how likely extraterrestrial life might be. But no matter what, the truth of Christianity will stand. This is how strange our times are: Last week, two United States presidents engaged the ...

Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences, which has produced a trio of modern-day dire wolves and the woolly mouse, seeks to bring back extinct species.

Stitch, the beloved blue alien from Disney’s “Lilo & Stitch” franchise, has captured hearts worldwide with his mischievous personality and unique appearance. While clearly an extraterrestrial creation ...

Abstract: We investigate the semantics of a process algebra language for DNA computing. As a formal description technique we use denotational semantics and the mathematical methodology of metric ...

If humans ever receive a message from intelligent aliens, the biggest challenge may not be how far away they are, but how to communicate at all. Our nearest star system is more than four light-years ...