Given that microbes helped make Earth habitable, we could use synthetic biology to engineer microbes to speed up a similar ...

If we cut or limit funding for curiosity-driven research, we risk shutting down the pipeline of future innovation,” writes ...

In a recent study, researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they ...

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Schrödinger later revised his view – around the 1950s – suggesting that life depends on free energy. Free energy is the ...

Later, Wacław Szybalski popularized the term in 1974 in reference to genetic engineering, but little did he know that one day ...