Scientists want to create cells from scratch, to unveil life's origins or provide specialized functions. Are they close?

At its Latin roots, consciousness literally meant “knowing with.” This was a borrowing from an earlier Proto-Indo-European ...

Ben Hine was 4 years old when his parents split. In his recollection, he remembers that his dad left for work one day and his uncle arrived in a van to pick up Ben and his mother, along with the ...

Nicolas Rivron, a biologist now based in Austria, spent close to a decade trying to build a model mouse embryo in the lab from scratch. After years of incremental progress and occasional false leads, ...

On May 5, 2023, a 19-year-old hiker named Matthew Read headed out on a roughly 12-mile trek in an underpopulated part of Glacier National Park in Montana. Read, a chemical engineering student, had ...

It’s possible that traditional discipline could have prevented the shooting. Henderson had a history of violence and threats against family, students, and teachers. The teenager had recently been ...

According to neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, it's our feelings, not high-level brain function, that make us human.

Most people used to think the Crestone Needle, a jagged peak in Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo range, was unclimbable. Until, that is, Albert Ellingwood and Eleanor Davis reached its summit in 1916.

When Angela Tang’s teenage son came down with a baffling illness, few households could have been better equipped to deal with it. The family lives in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb. Both parents are ...

Tensions over food stamp restrictions are bubbling between the soda industry and the Trump administration, splitting Republicans and driving a lobbying bonanza. Health advocates and some states have ...

In 2006, a new study on antidepressants was making headlines with its promising results: Two-thirds of participants who tried various antidepressants recovered from their depression symptoms within ...

On a sunny fall morning, biologist Andy Hubbard set up a makeshift lab next to small pools at a national park’s outcropping of ancient granite rocks. Immersed in the stillness of a cactus forest, he ...