The Evolving Quest to Build Life in a Lab

The ocean’s most abundant “loner” microbe has a sticky second life

A wild sprite haunting the West Yorkshire moors? Not quite. Emily Brontë’s legend distracts from what we know about her life

“Lobster and duck at the Johnson White House.” The success of Ralph Ellison’s individualist crusade resulted in an extreme version of public life

Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life

Is There Life on Mars, Pennsylvania?

Thursday Poem

New AI Tool Could Help Scientists Make ‘Rare’ Cross-Disciplinary Leaps

Science Without Scientists?

This design software reimagines everyday objects as self-aware devices

What made Cormac McCarthy a great writer? The sound of his prose, in its full excess and strangeness

The Map to the Route of Your Life

The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream

Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife

Nineteen Truths and One Beguiling Lie about Life from 20 Years of The Marginalian

How to Grow Old without Letting Life Become a Parody of Itself

Breathing New Life Into Organized Labor

What Makes Life Beautiful?

A Texas Lawsuit Dubiously Accuses Students for Life of Violating the State's Abortion Pill Restrictions

Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life

Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life