Scientists want to create cells from scratch, to unveil life's origins or provide specialized functions. Are they close?

At its Latin roots, consciousness literally meant “knowing with.” This was a borrowing from an earlier Proto-Indo-European ...

Nicolas Rivron, a biologist now based in Austria, spent close to a decade trying to build a model mouse embryo in the lab from scratch. After years of incremental progress and occasional false leads, ...

According to neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, it's our feelings, not high-level brain function, that make us human.