The Gaia theory establishes a link between living species and the chemistry of Planet Earth. What about life beyond Earth? Will cybernetics ever lead to new life forms?
Earth's Vital Statistics Earth's Resources Crowding Our Planet Straining Our Resources
Why species stay or go in response to climate change Planet Earth Online - news from the natural world
The Mathematics of Biology Persistence or extinction: through a mathematical lens
Universality of circular polarization in star and planet forming regions: implications for the origin of homochirality of life
ASU researchers propose new way to look at the dawn of life Power behind priordial soup discovered
Origin of life emerged from cell membrane bioenergetics Untangling life's origins
Molecules assemble in water, hint at origins of life Origins of life? Biologists study offers new clues
Eco-evolutionary dynamics in response to selection on life-history An emerging movement ecology paradigm
Dinosaur egg study supports evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs
Supercomputing transforms study of evolutionary relationships
Computer scientists suggest new spin on origins of evolvability
First complete computer model of an organism How life turned left
What sparked the origin of life modeled by researchers
Genetic study of house dust mites demonstrates reversible evolution
Dung beetles guided by the Milky Way
'Global Worming': earthworms contribute to climate change
Predicting to new environments: tools for visualizing model behaviour and impacts on mapped distributions
Modelling the effect of size on the aerial dispersal of microorganisms Dance of the microswimmers
Report seeks to integrate microbes into climate models
Unexpected finding shows climate change complexities in soil
Biologists unlock 'black box' to underground world
Study identifies prime source of ocean methane
Transmission Dynamics of Infectious Disease
Ants and Climate Change Discovered: the oldest fossils on Earth
NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical
The Evolution of Proteins Copy of genetic makeup travels in a protein suitcase
Chemical ecology in retrospect and prospect
Finding iron's role in life on early Earth Large bacterial population colonized land 2.75B years ago
Northwestern scientists create chemical brain Neanderthal Neuroscience
Cambrian fossil pushes back evolution of complex brains
Complex systems: From chemistry to systems biology Properties of developmental gene regulatory networks
Close Family Ties Keep Microbial Cheaters in Check
Scripps Research Scientists unlock evolutionary secret of blood vessels
Geobiology: Evidence for early life on Earth and the search for life on other planets
Slow-moving rocks better odds that life crashed to Earth from space
Microfossils of sulphur-metabolizing cells in 3.4-billion-year-old rocks of Western Australia
Breakthrough model reveals evolution of ancient nervous systems through analysis of seashell color patterns
What is life? Defining Life The Definition of Life: A Brief History of an Elusive Scientific Endeavor
Theory of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life
An Aristotelian Account of Minimal Chemical Life Defining Life in a Cybernetic Context
UMD finding may hold key to Gaia Theory of earth as a living organism
Studying Biology's Dark Matter Shedding light on the "dark matter" of the genome
CNIO researchers 'capture' the replication of the human genome for the first time
Salk researchers chart epigenomics of stem cells that mimic early human development
The geography of recent genetic ancestry across Europe