Living systems rely on molecules fitting together precisely. A key concept is chirality – many biological building blocks come in mirror-image forms, like left and right hands. Life on Earth mostly ...

Mars may be hostile, but it might not be entirely unlivable. In lab experiments, yeast cells survived simulated Martian shock waves and toxic perchlorate salts—two major environmental threats on the ...

The Orion spacecraft may only be the size of two minivans on the inside — but for the Artemis II astronauts, the capsule taking them to the vicinity of the moon has already proved to be larger than ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the full history of a galaxy outside the Milky Way using chemical clues. By analyzing oxygen across NGC 1365 and comparing it with simulations, they ...

Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat “holdfast” discs for anchoring to the seafloor.

The post-pandemic bubble popped, but life sciences aren’t going anywhere. Blackstone announced Monday that it closed Blackstone Life Sciences VI (BXLS VI) at its hard cap of $6.3 billion in ...

One of the world’s leading investment firms has broken its own record with the closing of its $6.3 billion Blackstone Life Sciences VI (BLXS VI) fund, which is 40% larger than its predecessor.

Blackstone Inc. closed its latest life-sciences fund with $6.3 billion of commitments, the firm’s biggest haul for backing clinical trials of medicines and technologies. The new vehicle, Blackstone ...

Blackstone on Monday announced the close of the largest life sciences private fund ever raised. At $6.3 billion, the fund is nearly 40% bigger than a $4.6 billion predecessor that Blackstone completed ...