Thomas Mulligan investigates the fascinating possibility that primordial space rocks served as the celestial vessels ...

Two diamonds formed 700 kilometers below the Earth's surface reveal a life-giving synchronicity between shifting continents ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered one of the most intriguing clues yet in humanity's search for life beyond Earth. While exploring an ancient river valley on Mars, the rover detected complex ...

The latest discovery of nucleotides on an asteroid is making scientists rethink the story of how life got going ...

A new approach to battery recycling could turn today's electric vehicle waste into the building blocks of tomorrow's higher-performing batteries. Engineers at the University of California San Diego ...

I can’t believe I’m leading off my final column with building blocks, but here we go. I had a long-lasting love for LEGO as a kid. OK, whoop-di-doo. LEGO building was everything I wanted. There were ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

Automotive plastics account for up to 18% of a car's mass, yet only a small share – less than one-fifth – is typically ...

Hundreds of the flats in the tower blocks are slowly being emptied, and one tells the MEN he's glad to have left ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that can feed, grow and replicate like a natural cell.

Scientists have created the world’s first man-made cell that can eat, grow and reproduce. Called SpudCell, it is the work of ...