“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 ...

The small mirror attached to your car's side mirror is called a blind spot mirror. It's usually a small convex piece of glass added to either corner of the main side-view mirror. Its purpose is to ...

In a world where we've grown reliant on technology, Black Mirror shows just how vulnerable we might be. The Netflix sci-fi series explores our relationship with tech, and what could happen if things ...

Scientist Kate Adamala doesn’t remember exactly when she realized her lab at the University of Minnesota was working on something potentially dangerous — so dangerous in fact that some researchers ...

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, ...

For many years, researchers have been pursuing the development of what scientists have called “mirror life.” This evocative term refers to a fundamental property of biological life. All biological ...