Bill Gothard founded the Institute in Basic Life Principles in 1961 and was accused of sexual harassment decades later Alex Gurley is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

The Earth was formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago. The first signs of life on our planet emerged soon after (in terms of the Earth's history). However, the conditions back then were very different ...

Scientists report that they have built a living "minimal cell" with a genome stripped down to its barest essentials – and a computer model of the cell that mirrors its behavior. By refining and ...

Life is quirky. Although the molecules that make up all living things obey physical and chemical laws, they do so with a puzzling twist. How did the distinctive molecular features of life emerge, and ...

A developer wants to build a senior assisted living community on a portion of the Institute in Basic Life Principles’ property on Ogden Avenue just east of Route 83 in Hinsdale. Estimated to cost $95 ...

Princeton bioengineer Clifford Brangwynne has won the 2023 Breakthrough Prize for Life Sciences, recognizing his contributions to the study of living cells. Brangwynne’s research has changed how ...

When a feline gets threatened, it engages in a suite of behaviors that seem to have the purpose of facilitating its own survival. A cat will growl angrily. It will arch its back. And even the fur on ...