Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

Scientists grew chickpeas in simulated moon soil, raising the possibility that astronauts could one day grow crops on future ...

In an age of artificial intelligence, the one thing machines can't replace is original human thought — so why aren't we teaching it? Syed Mustafa Ahmad It is a universally acknowledged truth that the ...

For millions of us, applying a spritz of perfume is something we do without a second thought – but experts are warning that some popular ranges could contain potentially dangerous chemicals. These ...

Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

Shooting at Rhode Island youth hockey game leaves 3 dead, including shooter, and 3 more wounded Grieving parents demand changes after 26-year-old son euthanized under controversial law Hillary Clinton ...

A new psychedelic retreat calling itself a “SETI for the mind” aims to establish two-way communication with the nonhuman entities people encounter while tripping on DMT.

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

Former United States President Barack Obama has clarified remarks related to the existence of extraterrestrial life made on a podcast, after appearing to claim that he knew aliens are real. During a ...

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.