Nancy Shute talks about life’s complexities, from its evolution on Earth as a single cell to complex human behavior.

Simple systems can reproduce faster than complex ones. So, how can the complexity of life have arisen from simple chemical beginnings? Starting with a simple system of self-replicating fibres, ...

Labs and biomanufacturing facilities have always been complex machines that are challenging to build and operate, but recent developments in biotech have made building lab space more difficult, even ...

Microfossils may capture a jump in the complexity of life that coincided with the rise of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere and oceans, according to an international team of scientists. Microfossils from ...

A new study shows that multicelled organisms like the metazoan daphnia (pictured) require a tenfold increase in energy compared with protists for their growth, maintenance and survival. The high cost ...

One fact parents can explain to their adolescent is this: as the young person grows older, life is going to keep becoming more complex. What this means for the adolescent is that she or he must keep ...

This masterpiece by Pieter Bruegel the Elder captures the heat of late summer — and the complexity of life There’s a comic pathos in any attempt to describe the paintings of the 16th-century Flemish ...

Simple systems can reproduce faster than complex ones. So, how can the complexity of life have arisen from simple chemical beginnings? Starting with a simple system of self-replicating fibers, ...