In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the Lasker Awards for biomedical research, how gene editing could cure diabetes and more.

The odds for life existing on other planets has just skyrocketed after a NASA rover unearthed new evidence on Mars. The odds for life existing on other planets just skyrocketed. NASA’s stoic ...

NASA rover Perseverance collected evidence being considered by agency officials as 'the closest we have ever come to ...

That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.

The world's greatest space telescopes have all been round. Now, a new rectangular design could turbocharge our search for ...

There are some scientific discoveries that do much more than advance our knowledge: they create a shift in our psyche as they show us the scale of the Universe and our place in it. One such moment was ...

While radio waves are the method of choice when searching for signals of intelligent alien life, other detectable signs also ...

A new SETI methodology focuses on detecting the "spillover" from directed interstellar communications, mirroring how we communicate with our own spacecraft, rather than relying on broad, speculative ...

Earth’s history has been punctuated by at least five major ice ages. Some of these frigid periods of prolonged global cooling saw much of our planet locked in ice and snow for 100 million years. It ...

This theory was the brainchild of Francis Crick (yes, the one who helped identify DNA) and Leslie Orgel, the originator of ...

As Earthlings, most of us don’t spend a lot of extra time thinking about the gravity on our home planet. Instead, we go about our days only occasionally dropping things or tripping over furniture but ...