A nutrition scientist applies metabolism, biology and food science to one of science fiction's oldest questions.

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.

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Where did life on Earth come from? It is one of humanity’s oldest and most fascinating questions. For centuries, people have ...

For generations, science fiction has imagined what life might look like on other worlds. Novelist H.G. Wells described nightmarish squid-like Martian invaders in The War of the Worlds, while the ...