Air-BorneCarl Zimmer Dutton, $32. On March 10, 2020, 61 choir members rehearsed in a church hall in Skagit County, Wash. As they sang, a microscopic germ wafted through the air.

The new research, published in Science Advances, builds upon the landmark 1953 Miller-Urey experiment. Electrical exchanges between oppositely charged water droplets can result in the production ...

The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 years later, she’s pursuing new research on the boundaries of life.

To further boost Beijing’s position as a global hub for scientific innovation, the third phase of Zhongguancun Life Science Park is now under construction and will add 750,000 square metres of ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the building blocks of life.

Science | May 28, 2025. Should Scientists Inject Saturn’s Moon Enceladus With Life? A new study proposes that seeding the orb’s underground ocean with microbes might help us learn how to make ...

In a new book, “Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence,” out on Aug. 6, Sara Walker, a physicist at Arizona State University, offers a theory that she and her colleagues ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an ...