To recognize strange extraterrestrial life and solve biological mysteries on this planet, scientists are searching for an objective definition for life’s basic units. More than half a billion years ...
People often feel that they can intuitively recognize whether something is alive, but nature is filled with entities that flout easy categorization as life or non-life — and the challenge may ...
Claudia Vickers receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Queensland Government, the Human Frontier Science Program, the European Union 7th Framework Programme, The University of ...