In the admittedly futuristic discipline of simulated artificial life form, or animat, research, BabyX is perhaps the most ambitious project to date. Its creator, Mark Sagar, has chosen no less a goal ...

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific evidence at a record pace. Yet the age-old question remains unanswered: are we ...

This doesn't make diatoms silicon-based life forms, but it does prove silicon can indeed act as a building block of a living organism. But we still don't know if silicon-based life forms exist at all, ...