Life is remarkably diverse. When you look around the world, you can find such astounding differences between each lifeform.

Kate Adamala started work on a cell in which the natural molecular structure is reversed. Then a possible doomsday scenario became clear.

“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 ...

Mirrors are arguably one of the most common items you might come across on a day-to-day basis. Today, these items are in virtually every bathroom, and some people also have decorative mirrors in other ...

In 1958, Bizarro made his way into comic strips—an inverted Superman who lives on a planet called Htrae, which is governed by laws opposite of those governing Earth. “I was striving, you might say, ...

As frustrating as having an atmosphere can be for physicists, it’s just as bad for astronomers, who have to deal with clouds, ...

Sometimes, the art of making mirrors has little to do with reflection. By Stephen Wallis This article is part of our Design special section about the reverence for handmade objects. Part of human ...