Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

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, ...

Might the deadliest pathogen in the history of the world be one that life itself cannot see? That is the specter fueling a heated debate among synthetic biologists, biosecurity professionals, and ...

While mirror bacteria may sound like a fun time, a group of 40 renowned scientists conclude it is probably not worth the risk.

Kate Adamala had been working on something dangerous. At her synthetic biology lab, Adamala had been taking preliminary steps toward creating a living cell from scratch with one key twist: All the ...

In 1847 when Louis Pasteur first methodically separated left- and right-handed tartrate crystals from the cork of a wine bottle, the idea of creating life from oppositely handed molecules was almost ...

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An international group of researchers has recently warned the broader scientific community and the public of the risks of mirror life—specifically, the creation of mirror microbes by scientists in the ...

Black swans entered the public vernacular in 2007 with the publication of Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Black swans are unexpected events, outliers ...

At an international conference this week, experts will work to chart a path forward as they tackle the promise and perils of mirror-image cells. ©2025 GIZMODO USA ...