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Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from sun-eating microbes, was rel ...

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability ...

Two research teams at the University of Colorado Boulder are working on separate projects that could protect astronauts in space, as well as human health here on Earth.

Image: Universal Pictures While the crisis of a global pandemic (or near-extinction) is averted by the end of Wise’s sci-fi thriller, the implications are still dire. As humans tend to cycle through ...

Ryan Gosling’s new science fiction movie shows an astronaut who saves the world and dies to self. Ryan Gosling stars as Ryland Grace in Project Hail Mary.

Inspired by strategy titles such as XCOM and UFO, Xenonauts 2 will not be a chronological sequel, rather it will cover ...

In 2015, the YouTube channel Unfavorable Semicircle gained attention for its enigmatic and abundant video uploads, totaling ...

What: SETI Institute Artists-in-Residence present Exoplanetary Poetry, an art-science collaboration that trains artificial intelligence on exoplanet atmospheric chemi ...

We found no strong automatic tendency to see AI or human art as inherently better or worse. This finding tells us that people don’t yet have a knee-jerk reaction or deeply held opinion about AI as ...

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...

Invenção da cor by Hélio Oiticica. Image via Carlos Reis Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Many of the spatial ideas we now associate with contemporary architecture, collective use, and bodily ...