Take a minute and imagine a world where biologists do not have a concept of life. We can call this the “No-Concept-of-Life” (NCL) World. In the NCL world, biologists struggle to characterize exactly ...
Imagine using your cell phone to control the activity of your own cells to treat injuries and disease. It sounds like something from the imagination of an overly optimistic science fiction writer. But ...
LIFE can be strange. Just look at narwhals, and those stick insects that resemble leaves on legs. Or consider the cockeyed squid, with its bizarrely mismatched peepers: one yellow and huge, the other ...