Biosphere 2 isn’t just the site of a famous human experiment. Today, scientists there work to understand how life emerges in barren environments.

They are beautiful, they are everywhere, and they are absurdly unknown: you are entirely forgiven if you've never heard of ...

A scaling law relates the expected number of mutants to the total population size of cells in a spatially constrained but ...

Chromosomes continuously develop their shape during cell divisions. Mitotic chromosomes gradually shorten and thicken. Longer ...