Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

The curious minds at What If explore what would happen if scientists found life on Europa, revealing icy ecosystems, alien ...

Hungarian biologist Tibor Gánti is an obscure figure. Now, more than a decade after his death, his ideas about how life began ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

Who doesn't love getting the latest tech for the holidays? It's the perfect time to unwind with some of your favorite games, after all. Whether you want to treat yourself or make that special gamer in ...

NASA has compiled a list of seven science-fiction movies it deems the most scientifically accurate in portraying space, alien ...

Researchers across biology, philosophy, and AI are split on what counts as a mind—and whether today’s systems qualify.

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Yet another satellite megaconstellation is in the works, this one from Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin. The Washington-based ...

The Living Worlds Working Group proposes a revolutionary approach to finding life on distant planets. The paper, part of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Scientists found that microgravity fundamentally slows the infection cycle, pushing phages to become hyper-efficient at ...