(CN) — In a study published Thursday that details ongoing international efforts to combat certain incurable diseases, scientists made an open call for research involving viral vaccines and artificial ...

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers. Inside our cells and microbiomes, researchers are uncovering entities that ...

Primitive life forms thrived on Mars around the same time prehistoric life was developing in Earth’s oceans — but the Red Planet’s denizens doomed themselves, a new study suggests. Mars’ ...

A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a completely unknown form of multicellular life, according to a new study.

Imagine a life form that doesn't resemble any of the organisms found on the tree of life. One that has its own unique control system, and that a doctor would want to send into your body. It sounds ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new Johns Hopkins University study finds. The work demonstrates that a certain ...

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Data fed into computer models shows that microscopic life forms may once have thrived there -- and may have left behind evidence of their existence. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011.