Amino acids make up millions of proteins that drive the chemical gears of life, including essential bodily functions in animals. Because of amino acids' relationship to living things scientists are ...

Researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) studying the origins of life successfully simulated an important pre-biotic chemical reaction last year. JPL is talking about the work that went ...

These times like to offer us a frustrating lesson in limits. No one likes to feel powerless, yet time and time again, recent events have left us feeling that way. Try as we might to keep healthy, ...

Would you like to spend a year pretending to live on Mars in a 1,700-square-foot space shared with three other people? If that's your idea of a dream job, you can thank your lucky stars, because NASA ...

Four volunteers are spending a year in NASA's 3D-printed Mars habitat, simulating life on the Red Planet. This mission, CHAPEA, tests how isolation, limited resources, and confined spaces affect human ...

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Research on the computer has an interesting life of its own. It never ceases to amaze me how one can be a biomedical scientist without ever getting under a fume hood or pipetting into a test tube.

Imagine living on Mars! A unique tourist camp in Mongolia's Gobi Desert, called MARS-V, will offer a month-long survival challenge simulating life on the Red Planet by 2029. Participants will wear ...

Today, life and the byproducts thereof inhabit every nook and cranny of Earth, but there was a time when nothing lived on our home planet. Researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) ...