A remarkably small bacterium containing fewer than 500 genes serves as the basis for one of the most detailed digital life reconstructions ever created. Using computer technology, scientists have ...

Researchers simulated nearly every molecule in a bacterial cell — and then watched the cell grow and reproduce.

In a study published in Systematic Biology, researchers from Imperial College London, UCL, Dalhousie University and the United Nations Environment Program World Conservation Monitoring Center ...

NASA officials are revealing what life was like spending a year inside a Mars simulation and say the United States might reach the red planet by the "end of next decade." Commander Kelly Haston, ...

RACINE, Wis. (CBS 58) -- At the Memorial Hall in Racine, a group of students got a trial run in what life is like as an adult. Around 100 students participated in "Reality Check" Monday, an ...