Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

A new theory suggests windows of opportunity, not a series of improbable events may have helped humans gain a foothold in the ...

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

A recent study presents a new way to understand life by describing it as a cascade of machines producing machines, spanning ...

We welcome your interest in PhD studies in Life and Biomedical Sciences at Northwestern University (NU LaBS). Our goal is to train scientists in an innovative, interdisciplinary environment while ...

A recent study investigates how polyester microdroplets, potential precursors to modern cells, could form under realistic early Earth conditions. Researchers pushed these conditions to the limits, ...

Rovers sent to Mars have so far failed to detect life, likely because it doesn’t exist on the Red Planet. But we can’t say ...

The rapidly expanding global economy, combined with the demand for attorneys with IP or life sciences expertise across several industries makes the new concentration an intriguing option for students, ...

An ambitious, multinational research project co-led by the University at Buffalo has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity ...

Human life expectancy has just about peaked, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Aging, and barring a transformative breakthrough in medical science, people will top out at ...