With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself ...

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer ...

Beneath the surface lies an alien ocean packed with bizarre survival strategies, terrifying hunters, and creatures unlike ...

A nutrition scientist applies metabolism, biology and food science to one of science fiction's oldest questions.

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Rare 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France look nearly identical to living species, revealing a body ...

Have you ever seen a creature that can punch faster than a bullet? The mantis shrimp is one of the most powerful and bizarre hunters in the ocean, capable of shattering shells — and even glass — with ...

Sea squirts in the Antarctic could offer us a novel way to kill melanoma cells – that is, skin cancer – without harming ...

Islands are already famous for strange wildlife, but their cave systems take isolation to another level. Cut off from ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

And if aliens made of different stuff potentially possess consciousness, then why not minds made of silicon, metal, and ...