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The curious minds at What If explore what your voice sounds like on different planets.

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A nun discusses the debate on UFOs, suggesting they may be linked to spiritual forces rather than extraterrestrial beings, ...

The ruling was made in a case involving technology giant Cisco Systems, building a surveillance system for China’s Communist ...

A study suggests that stellar plasma may distort alien signals, complicating SETI's search for extraterrestrial life by ...

A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...

Amanda Lohrey’s 10th novel, Capture, follows a clinical psychologist researching patients who say they have been abducted.

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With over three decades of pioneering research in forest genetics, biodiversity conservation and ecological restoration, Dr ...