In his new book, “Life’s Edge,” Carl Zimmer asks the modest questions: What is life? How did it begin? And by what criteria can we define things as “living”? On this week’s podcast, Zimmer, a science ...

Asking a biologist to define 'life' is a bit like looking-up the word 'definition' in a dictionary — it's as if you're questioning their very existence. Biologists like myself don't agree on what life ...

Challenge your mind right now. Come up with a brief, meaningful, and defensible definition of life. Try it. How hard can it be? You know life when you see it, right? You are life. So put that search ...

Challenge your mind right now. Come up with a brief, meaningful, and defensible definition of life. Try it. How hard can it be? You know life when you see it, right? You are life. So put that search ...

A central question of astrobiology concerns the origin and distribution of life in the Universe. For this reason, astrobiology can be considered to fall within the science called transitional biology.

As I've said before, "Life is generally valued by those who are living it. Given the choice between life and death, people as a whole want as much life as they can get." In this, I firmly believe. It ...

When we try to define “old age,” most of us want to determine where it starts, as though anything beyond X number of years is old and everything that comes before that is something else – maybe ...

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CU Boulder is one of five ‘spokes’ of the Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe, charged with exploring the nature and extent of life in the universe For most of human history on Earth, we have ...

When you take a literal definition of work-life balance and do some math, you find that everyone but the most aggressive workaholics is off-balance in the opposite way you would expect. Balance is the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by In her new play, Lauren Gunderson explores the legacy of the 18th-century French mathematician and philosophe Emilie du Châtelet. By Rhoda Feng ...