A new scientific study has found strong chemical signs that some of the city’s earliest bathing pools were contaminated by human waste and weren’t refreshed often, meaning ancient bathers were, quite ...

For more than a century, the idea that life might have arrived on our planet from elsewhere in the cosmos sat at the fringes ...

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

Humans have been scouring the sky for alien life for centuries, and we’ve had, let’s face it, little success. Proposed ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

Ranging from supernatural frights to masked killers with the ability to be in multiple places at once, the following horror ...

The latest Star Trek series picks up from the events of Discovery, and includes returning characters and references to Trek ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does ...

Oscar-winning actress Jessica Chastain is returning for a second season of Audible’s “The Space Within,” an audio thriller ...

Viruses often feel like modern threats linked to recent history. Scientific research now shows a much older relationship between humans and certain viruses. A new study shows that Human ...

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How much of our genome really matters? Some argue that because most of our DNA is active, it must be doing something important. Others say even random DNA would be highly active. This has now been put ...