Teetering near endangered status, the starlet sea anemone produces “an ancient mechanism” for fighting viruses that ...
The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...
The octopus is one of the strangest animals ever to evolve. With 500 million neurons—most of them located in its eight arms ...
In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...
A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about where you live than about what consciousness really requires.
The stunning evolution of Supergirl's costume from cheerleader skirts to badass bodysuits proves she's always been ahead of ...
The planets are extremely large, with TOI-791 b being about the same size as Jupiter, and TOI-791 c even larger. Yet, they ...
Imagine waking tomorrow to the news that aliens exist.
A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...
What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...
Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...
The hats and jumpsuits might have drawn a chuckle and a nod, but Devo have always been 100 per cent serious about their ...