The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a prison planet where the biology is very different to that on Earth ...

Discover how scientists blend biology, synthetic biology, and astrobiology to speculate on alien life forms, focusing on the ...

Exactly 300 years later, the French Académie des Sciences announced a prize for establishing communication with life anywhere but on Earth or Mars ... different new books accrete – is ...

So how has life become ... life began on Earth. Challenge them to order the evidence as to what they find the most persuasive and why. This clip will be relevant for teaching Biology at KS3 ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were ... is rewriting the textbook on what ...

Although no one knows for sure how life ... Biology at KS3 and KS4/GCSE in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and SQA National 3/4/5 in Scotland. Professor Brian Cox explains how the Earth ...

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth ... is rewriting the textbook on what we understand ...

Today it represents something quite different: a set of extraordinary clues, recently reinterpreted, to one of the deepest and most puzzling mysteries of life on Earth. After burbling along for ...

I write about the world of biology. Sharks have ... years and have witnessed the Earth’s ... [+] evolution from a primordial soup to the haven for life it is today. When we think of Earth ...