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

President Donald Trump has been in office for a little over a year, and our nation is experiencing record-low border crossings, violent crime is down, and the flow of deadly ...

Science fiction loves the idea of “godlike aliens,” but the scary part is that it may be realistic. A civilization millions of years ahead of us could manipulate matter, energy, biology, and even ...

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

James Gunn promised a DC Universe built on gods and monsters, and the first wave of those monsters is already here. His new continuity does not treat giant creatures as disposable action scenes. It ...

Insects are often seen as invaders due to high-profile species like the yellow-legged (Asian) hornet, the harlequin ladybird ...

Large language models have grown so vast and complex that even the people who build them no longer fully understand how they work. A single modern ...

By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some ...

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

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

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 ...