Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have built a computer simulation that tracks the entire life cycle ...

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies beyond the traditional ...

What if scientists could take cells from both living and dead organisms and turn them into entirely new organisms beyond life and death? While it might sound completely out of this world—something you ...

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Scientists are amazed by the warty comb jellyfish, Mnemiopsis leidyi. This sea creature can reverse its life cycle to a juvenile stage when conditions become tough. This ability was previously thought ...