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 ...

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies beyond the traditional ...

What if there’s a third state between life and death? And what if your cells are... conscious? Mind-blowing new research shows that, at least for some cells, death isn’t the end, but the beginning of ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new Johns Hopkins University study finds. The work demonstrates that a certain ...

Scientists have recently uncovered a groundbreaking discovery in the ocean’s depths, revealing a new form of life that could reshape our understanding of biology and ecosystems. This discovery, made ...