A virus that infects nearly all children early in life has, in rare cases, been present within human DNA for thousands of ...

Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

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Analysis of woolly rhinoceros DNA recovered from the permafrost-preserved wolf further hints that the Ice Age beasts went ...

Scientists have successfully extracted the DNA of ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. This is ...

Over the last 100 years, sci-fi films have reflected shifting cultural anxieties: from industrialization and nuclear war to ...

Wikipedia had to fight to establish its legitimacy—and now it faces a new existential threat posed by generative AI ...

In the real world, convinced that aliens were planning to beam him into the sky, Daniel says that he repeatedly drove his ...

If aliens from space can die and mourn their dead then they likely invented gods to worship. Because they missed their loved ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...