A new study provides the first proof-of-principle that genetic material transferred from one species to another can increase both longevity and healthspan in the recipient animal.
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9 minutes of cruel history may cure the anti-progress delusion.
How did complex systems emerge from chaos? Physicist Sean Carroll explains.
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Your life’s memories could, in principle, be stored in the universe’s structure.
Life arose on Earth very early on. After a few billion years, here we are: intelligent and technologically advanced. Where’s everyone else?
A true scientific view of if, where, and when extraterrestrial life exists is within our grasp thanks to biosignatures and technosignatures.
The divers spend their waking hours either under hundreds of feet of water on the ocean floor or squeezed into an area the size of a restaurant booth.
Every opportunity seized is another lost — but not choosing is the worst choice of all.
Embark on a journey through one of the most profound ecological transitions in the history of complex life.
“It is more human to laugh at life than to lament it.”
A single knife is sometimes worth more than a thousand armies.
Kurzweil predicts that AI will combine with biotechnology to defeat degenerative diseases this decade. Then things will get really interesting.
Genes are sometimes called the “blueprint of life,” but that doesn’t make them the behavioral playbook.
Admitting that we know little about our future selves can radically improve our decision-making.
The Reitoff principle gives us permission to “write off” a day and intentionally step away from achieving anything.
“Feedback is a gift,” is an easy bumper sticker to apply, but a harder philosophy to put into execution in your real life.
Actor and science communicator Alan Alda shares his three rules of three for effective and empathic communication.
Quality down time is important for relationships. Here are three practical suggestions to create more of it.
When the Universe was first born, the ingredients necessary for life were nowhere to be found. Only our “lucky stars” enabled our existence.
According to bushido, your life is of secondary importance to key virtues, like honor, loyalty, and justice.
No matter how you define the end, including the demise of humanity, all life, or even the planet itself, our ultimate destruction awaits.
If you feel like you’re missing out on something bigger, you might be feeling saṃvega.
According to Peter Ward’s “Medea hypothesis,” photosynthesizing organisms regularly doom most life on Earth by over-consuming carbon dioxide.
Although mammals may be the dominant form of life today, we’re relative newcomers on planet Earth. Here’s our place in natural history.
An X-ray offers a glimpse into the painter’s early years.
Harmony and moderation make for a happier life.
In hospice care and hospitals, we prioritize those with more life to live over those who are terminally ill. What is that, if not prejudice?
We are wired to value things more when we work hard at attaining them — even if, objectively, they aren’t worth that much.
A next-generation instrument on a delayed rover may be the key to answering the question of life on Mars.