(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 ...

Earth's population is estimated to be roughly 8 billion people, according to the United Nations. Depending on body size and thus the surface area of skin, a person could have more than 8 billion ...

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 new synthetic lifeform, often referred to as “mirror life,” has recently emerged as a potential risk to humankind. With its inherent capacity for rapid evolution and adaptation, this life form could ...

"We have designed and engineered artificial, genetically tractable, photosynthetic endosymbiosis between photosynthetic cyanobacteria and budding yeasts," said University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...

Scientists have recently uncovered a groundbreaking discovery in the ocean’s depths, revealing a new form of life that could reshape our understanding of biology and ecosystems. This discovery, made ...

A newly published study has claimed to have found evidence that life on Mars exists, but it's not in the form of a small green martian alien. The study claims that the "evidence" of life that was ...

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.

Microbes taken from surface sediment near Lost Hammer Spring, Canada, about 900 km south of the North Pole, could provide a blueprint for the kind of life forms that may once have existed, or may ...