Life-forms made of stuff we couldn’t imagine may still be as conscious as we are.

For more than a decade, in an unassuming laboratory culture in the Czech Republic, a miniature universe quietly awaited its unveiling. Researchers believed they were monitoring marine ciliates ...

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers. Inside our cells and microbiomes, researchers are uncovering entities that ...

Challenging long-held assumptions, Aarhus University researchers have demonstrated that the protein building blocks essential for life as we know it can form readily in space. This discovery, ...

A graphical representation of glycine on a surface in the interstellar medium bombarded by cosmic rays to produce peptides, the building block of proteins. Challenging long-held assumptions, Aarhus ...