Biology asks, how does life work? Meta-biology or Philosophy of Biology asks, what is life, fundamentally? The meta of every science asks the bigger questions, it judges the fundamental assumptions ...

Pioneer of quantum mechanics Erwin Schrödinger's look at living organisms is one of the most influential popular-science ...

As a young mechanical engineering student, and later as a medical student, Yale’s Samuel Wilkinson became fascinated with what science — particularly theories of evolution — might tell us about the ...

I watch Rufus, a friend’s dog, chew enthusiastically on a rubber bone. I know the dog is alive, and his toy is not. I know that intuitively. But can I prove it scientifically? Can science parse the ...