“Mirror life”—a synthetic organism, mirror-reversed on the molecular level from natural life—sounds like an impossibility. And so far, it is—even the simplest mirror bacterium would be dramatically ...

The small mirror attached to your car's side mirror is called a blind spot mirror. It's usually a small convex piece of glass added to either corner of the main side-view mirror. Its purpose is to ...

For many years, researchers have been pursuing the development of what scientists have called “mirror life.” This evocative term refers to a fundamental property of biological life. All biological ...

Kate Adamala had been working on something dangerous. At her synthetic biology lab, Adamala had been taking preliminary steps toward creating a living cell from scratch with one key twist: All the ...