Intelligent life may develop on planets as a rule, not an exception — increasing the odds of humanity existing beyond Earth, ...

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

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

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, ...

A groundbreaking study from Tel Aviv University, the first of its kind on mammals, has found that bats living in urban ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

While some critics quickly labeled the proposal as political pie in the sky, life scientists had more down-to-earth concerns. They pointed out that, although a Mars mission could last as long as three ...

Chicago's life-sciences sector saw a significant boost in VC funding last year, but how does it stack up against other major hubs?