The possibly never-ending quest toward an explanation is the purview of a scientific field called Origins of Life, or OoL (a word that seems like it would be a good name for the first-ever organism).

A new report by Google, Google DeepMind and MIT finds that researchers are using AI…a lot. It’s just not helping as much in the lab ...

Artificial-intelligence systems can generate hypotheses, design experiments and analyse data — but humans still need to decide what makes sense.

Researchers are racing to culture a menagerie of exotic organisms and finding lots of surprises along the way.

Thousands of planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, offering clues to where life might thrive and whether Earth is truly unique. By Natalie Wolchover Troy E. Meink’s comments were the ...