Asking a biologist to define 'life' is a bit like looking-up the word 'definition' in a dictionary — it's as if you're questioning their very existence. Biologists like myself don't agree on what life ...

The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of ...

Most people think of happiness as a feeling: something that arrives when conditions are right and fades when they’re not. But the last decade of psychological science tells a different story.

The following is an extract from our nature newsletter Wild Wild Life. Sign up to receive it for free in your inbox every month. Until recently, many discounted the idea that life could have existed ...

What is the meaning of life? Even the best of us couldn't hope to answer that question in a Universe Today article. But there are those who would try to "constrain" it, at least in terms of physics. A ...

In 1791, a young Irish sailor, Francis Beaufort — later creator of the Beaufort Wind Scale — fell into the sea while trying to fasten a small boat to a ship. Unable to swim, he quickly started to sink ...

Numerologist Josh Siegel first became interested in life path numbers over 25 years ago at the Bodhi Tree bookstore in West Hollywood, California. Three decades later, now everyone seems to be ...