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This week, researchers convened in Manchester, UK, to debate whether research into potentially dangerous "mirror life" should be halted.

Scientists Debate Whether to Halt Type of Research That Could Destroy All Life on Earth

By Victor Tangermann

New research demonstrates how the first proteins could've formed without the help of biological processes.

Scientists Say They May Have Just Figured Out the Origin of Life

By Frank Landymore

A bombshell report revealed a bacteria whose genetic code is said to be more efficient than any other lifeform on earth.

Scientists Say They’ve Created a New Form of Life More Perfect Than the One Nature Made

The tentative detection of complex organic molecules around a young star has big implications about these crucial chemicals to life.

Scientists Find Evidence That Original Life on Earth Was Assembled From Material in Space

By Frank Landymore

In an executive order geared towards denying transgender rights, President Donald Trump seems to have made a huge mistake about biology.

Trump Appears to Have Accidentally Declared That Every Person in America Is Now Female

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of scientists have called for an immediate halt on creating "mirror life" organisms, which defy biology as we know it.

Scientists Horrified by “Mirror Life” That Could Wipe Out Biology As We Know It

By Frank Landymore

An ancient rock — or rather, the living microbes inside of it — could offer an unprecedented glimpse into early life on Earth.

Scientists Cracked Open a 2-Billion-Year-Old Stone and Discovered Something Entirely Unexpected

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In an experiment that simulated random for millions of generations, researchers say they witnessed the emergence of digital "organisms."

Google Researchers Say They Simulated the Emergence of Life

By Frank Landymore

A dolphin has been spotted with thumb-like appendages on its flippers, because the world apparently isn't weird enough as is.

Scientists Discover Dolphin With Thumbs

By Noor Al-Sibai

These mobile biological robots, or "anthrobots," have already proven that they can assemble themselves and repair damaged neurons

Scientists Build Biological Robots From Human Cells

By Frank Landymore

The mystery is settled: starfish don't have a head. They are a head — and their evolution may be even weird than once believed.

Oh God… Those Aren’t “Arms” on Starfish, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

If you had "scientists discover spooky golden orb at the site of an ancient underwater volcano" on your 2023 bingo card, boy, are you in luck.

Scientists Find Strange Golden Object at Bottom of Pacific Ocean

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Orcas Are Apparently Attacking Boats Almost Every Day Now

Orcas Are Apparently Attacking Boats Almost Every Day Now

By Noor Al-Sibai

A beluga whale, suspected of being a "Russian Spy," was seen far from home and experts say he may be looking for friends or a mate.

Suspected Russian Spy Whale Reappears, Possibly Lonely and Wanting Love

By Sharon Adarlo

Have you ever struggled to be heard over the sound of street construction? That makes you not all too different from dolphins, new research suggests.

Dolphins Are Screaming Because of Underwater Drilling Noise, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

The world's first lab-grown "synthetic embryo" has once again roiled the stem cell ethics discourse even though the human version isn't coming anytime soon.

The World’s First-Ever “Synthetic Embryo” Is Already Causing Controversy

By Noor Al-Sibai