Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the universe in a completely different way than we do. Physicist Daniel Whiteson exp ...

The Happy Mondays singer reckons the world around us isn’t as natural as we believe and that little green men have been ...

The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has ...

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

Some sci-fi movies completely ditch the idea of an enemy entity to instead focus on human ingenuity and the consequences of technology.

Human experimentation made many modern medical advances possible—but history shows what happens when ethics are ignored. Across wars, regimes, and institutions, people were subjected to cruel and ...

Michelle Fuller is Actually the Andromedan Empress, and She Decides Humanity Deserves to Die The entire time you’re watching Bugonia, you’re watching a conspiracy theorist named Teddy torture a woman ...

(via Cleo Abram) In the middle of the desert, miles from any city, are two HUGE concrete tubes. They’re part of a giant machine running the most precise experiment humans have ever built… ...

Studying how honeybees process information may help humans communicate with aliens, according to a new thought experiment. Although the ancestors of honeybees and humans diverged in evolution more ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

The truth is out there — and late President George H.W. Bush apparently knew it — telling a federal official that an alien made contact with humans at a secretive New Mexico air base in 1964, ...