DNA may be the blueprint for life on Earth, but the deeper scientists look, the less certain it seems that the rest of the universe has to follow the same rules. From RNA worlds and synthetic genetic ...

Step into an imagined world shaped by strange ecosystems, bizarre life forms, and the science that could make alien biology possible.

Searching for alien languages sheds light on how much human languages have in common—with each other and even with animal ...

That was the reaction inside the Dreamscape Learn Lab at St. Charles Community College — where biology students aren’t just reading about cells in a textbook. They’re stepping inside them. The ...