The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of ...

Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a ...

When checking that solutions to certain problems are correct, it turns out, you can’t get around the inherent complexity of ...

The mechanical process of cell division exerts powerful, if microscopic, forces. How do the molecular machines that power it ...

Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the ...

Raymond Davis Jr. is dwarfed by the giant tank used by the Homestake detector in South Dakota, which first detected solar neutrinos. Creating a large enough trap for neutrinos required a tank ...

An ancient lineage of cyanobacteria is helping biologists uncover an early evolutionary stage of the mind-boggling process that turns light into life. Every second, trillions of watts of solar energy ...