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

On Earth, life thrives in some of the most seemingly inhospitable environments. Single-celled organisms like bacteria teem in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park, where temperatures reach ...

Imagine E.T. snorted your dad off a space toilet. You’d be mad, but there wouldn’t be anything you could do about it. Unless you happened to have an arsenal of powerful alien guns and some tricked-out ...

The resulting outcome is that you have A.I. systems that have learned what it means to solve a problem that takes quite a ...

A vaccine usually trains your immune system to recognize one target. Here, the target is basically “anything that doesn’t ...

For millions of us, applying a spritz of perfume is something we do without a second thought - but experts are warning that ...

Mars has long been painted as a dead world of dust and radiation, a place where human visitors would survive only inside thick metal cans. A wave of new research on bizarre, ultra‑tough microbes from ...

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 ...

Some exceptionally unsettling elements were thrown together to create the Xenomorph when it first appeared in Ridley Scott's 1979 horror sci-fi, "Alien." Spliced from ...

Director Roland Emmerich’s 1996 alien invasion movie Independence Day arrives on Netflix today and I, for one, can’t wait to watch the film for what might be the 50th time. Sure, there are plenty of ...

Recent research into artificial intelligence’s emotional capabilities indicates that AI chatbots – long dismissed as rule-based and mechanical – may be better at recognizing empathetic patterns in ...