The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more ...

Some frogs have evolved features so strange that scientists struggle to explain them, and a few look less like amphibians ...

A planet with twice Earth's gravity produces creatures with different skeletal requirements, different muscular architecture, ...

Areeba Khan has been writing about anime and gaming for over four years, with bylines at ComicBook.com and Attack of the Fanboy. She first got into the niche when she ran a small anime Instagram page ...

A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...

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.

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

Laura Hurley has been writing about the entertainment industry for more than twelve years, after a decade as a content producer and editor at CinemaBlend after writing for WhatCulture and Examiner.

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

Octopuses, bees, and dogs all process information differently. Even within the narrow confines of one planet, evolution produced a wide range of nervous systems rather than a single design. A new ...

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

A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a ...