Challenge your mind right now. Come up with a brief, meaningful, and defensible definition of life. Try it. How hard can it be? You know life when you see it, right? You are life. So put that search ...

CU Boulder is one of five ‘spokes’ of the Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe, charged with exploring the nature and extent of life in the universe For most of human history on Earth, we have ...

Half a century ago, a quiet theorist working far from the big Western labs proposed a radical answer to one of science’s hardest questions: what, exactly, makes something alive. His framework for how ...

To successfully look for life beyond our own solar system, astrobiologists desperately need a viable definition of life. Even after a century or so of debate, they lack a viable universal definition ...

A Second New Paper Shows How Assembly Theory Fails to Define Life’s Complexity and Cannot Be Easily Fixed This new paper corroborates the many concerns demonstrating that AT’s assembly ...

As I've said before, "Life is generally valued by those who are living it. Given the choice between life and death, people as a whole want as much life as they can get." In this, I firmly believe. It ...