Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a philosophy he calls “recreational biology.” Inside Manu Prakash are two ...

WASHINGTON, DC – (March 28, 2025) More than 80 years ago, Erwin Schrödinger, a theoretical physicist steeped in the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the Upanishads, delivered a series of public lectures ...

It's tiny and needy, but is it alive? That's a question prompted by recent research that highlights a surprisingly complex part of biology. The organism in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum ...

“Can you imagine eating toxic waste for breakfast?” Science magazine asked in a 2010 press release touting a newly discovered microbe controversially claimed to “live and grow entirely off arsenic.” ...

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Imagine a world where the boundaries of biology are no longer fixed—a world where life can be created in a lab, where artificial intelligence can preserve a version of you long after you’re gone, and ...

"Those measurements should answer a lot of questions and give us more certainty," Byrne said. Even if future evidence shows that Europa's ocean is lifeless today, Byrne says the effort will still be ...