And not only that, but it helps us broaden our view of what life is and what possible life there could be out there life that could be very different from life that we find here on Earth.

What is life? What is this stuff of life?

So it's actually life, but it's actually not as we thought life would be.

Is life that improbable?

So the tree of life is normally divergence over time.

Actually, life forms produce things that kill themselves.

Growing living structures under an alien sky ...

It's kind of taken on a life of its own.

So, when you think of odd life forms, when you think of what it takes to live, it turns out this is a very efficient life form, and they call it an archaea. Archaea means the ancient ones.

And it pretty much goes through eight different forms in its lifetime.

So that's the concept here for how we think this life extension ability exists.

And he was like, My God, what kind of a life form is that?

In fact, we have such amazing lifeforms that we can manipulate.

I want to tell you about red pigmentation the basis of plant life.

Secondly, life needs to be in liquid form, so that means even if we had some interesting structures, interesting molecules together but they were frozen solid, then this is not a good place for life.

If we accept the theory of evolution, then the first dawn of synthesis of life must consist in the production of forms intermediate between the inorganic and the organic world, or between the non living and living world, forms which possess only some of the rudimentary attributes of life so, the ones I just discussed to which other attributes will be slowly added in the course of development by the evolutionary actions of the environment.

So they are, intrinsically, a slower life form.

And there's a whole new hydrothermal vent community that has been formed.

So cancer could be thought of as a strange, short lived, self destructive life form an evolutionary dead end.

It's actually quite lifeless. Once it forms, it doesn't really do anything.

Except my life.

The current Act does not clearly indicate that higher life forms are patentable.

So what we see here is a system that lives in very much the way we're used to life going. But what the NASA people had asked me really was, Do these guys have a biosignature?

And the result is kind of a tree of life of these viruses, a phylogeny that looks very much like the type of life that we're used to, at least on the viral level.

Shallow seas nurtured life early on, and that's where it morphed into more complex forms.

Because the idea was that, with concepts like that, maybe we can actually manufacture a form of life.

95. Ecological disasters, nuclear or otherwise, risk destroying every form of life.

He who seeks his life will lose it and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.

He who seeks his life will lose it and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.

He that findeth his life shall lose it and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

He that findeth his life shall lose it and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

All the energy to support these life forms is coming from inside the Earth so, chemosynthesis.

BL This bacteria that we've been talking about turns out to be the most simplest form of life found.

What's the fewest pieces we could use to make a little life form?

This is used in reference to a report in 2007 by the National Research Council in the United States, wherein they tried to understand how we can look for life elsewhere in the universe, okay, especially if that life is very different from life on Earth. If we went to another planet and we thought there might be life there, how could we even recognize it as life?

Their bodies were now hosts... harboring an alien form of life, a cosmic form... which, to survive, must take over every human man.

The scientists were off watch and they came across incredible life forms.

When lives are at stake, delaying any form of benevolent response is unconscionable.

How do we search for alien life if it's nothing like the life that we know? At TEDxUIUC Christoph Adami shows how he uses his research into artificial life self replicating computer programs to find a signature, a 'biomarker,' that is free of our preconceptions of what life is.

These creatures are some of the most immortal life forms on our planet, and they tend to spend most of their time in suspended animation.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.