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 journal Leonardo, our thought experiment lends weight to the idea that ...

Spider-Man's cosmic team just showed everyone, even him, that his greatest strength has always been inside of him.

Advanced aliens could be chatting with each other using light flashes in plain sight, similar to how fireflies communicate, ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

Scientists discover 26 new bacterial species in NASA cleanrooms, revealing surprisingly resilient microbes with potential ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Something very significant has been happening in plain sight, and almost no one seems to be noticing. Over the past few years, there have been televised congressional hearings, repeated news segments ...

The same personalized algorithms that deliver online content based on your previous choices on social media sites like YouTube also impair learning, a new study suggests. Researchers found that when ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

Movile Cave in Romania has evolved independently since it was cut off from the air and sunlight 5.5 million years ago. Its extreme environment seems inhospitable to most life on Earth. Yet, this place ...

Picture, if you will, a monster so powerful and so unpredictable that everyone around him lives in a constant state of fear. Oh, I should mention: This monster is a young man. He’s also a genius and a ...