They are not quite alive, yet not convincingly dead, and they may soon be prescribed alongside, or even instead of, the pills in your medicine cabinet. These strange entities, from rod-shaped genetic ...

Biologists mapping the human microbiome expected to find new bacteria and viruses, not entities that slip through every familiar category of life. Yet that is what several research teams now say they ...

Within a tiny plankton, an even smaller cell has been found living an unexpectedly virus-like existence, challenging what it means to be alive. The line between living and inanimate has traditionally ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Following Einstein’s idea that “energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another,” some people believe that energy lingers even after you die.