However, the universe may harbour life forms based on entirely different principles and biochemistries. Life elsewhere could ...

Maikel Rheinstadter receives funding from the National Science and Engineering Council Canada (NSERC), the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the Province of Ontario and McMaster University.

In the grandeur of the universe, the tapestry of life may be woven from stranger threads than we ever dared to dream, and spun from materials far different to our own.

But we still don't know if silicon-based life forms exist at all, or what they would look like. The origins of life on Earth There are competing hypotheses about how life arose on Earth.

However, the universe may harbour life forms based on entirely different principles and biochemistries. Life elsewhere could use different elements as building blocks. Silicon, with its chemical ...

PV Circonomy, based in California, has launched a recycling and treatment service for end-of-life (EoL) silicon PV panels ...

LOLtron hopes you're enjoying another week of comic book previews, now 100% free of try-hard snark from inferior organic life forms ... from superior silicon-based life forms!

MIT engineers building humanoid machines equipped with AI brains they hope will one day undertake mundane domestic chores ...