Julie Elie has been studying zebra finch vocalizations for years. Now, she has won the Coller-Dolittle Prize for progress ...

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Since the 1970s, people across the world have reported hearing an inexplicable low-frequency droning. Scientists now think ...

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These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

When I look at the night sky, I don’t wonder whether alien life is somewhere out there; I think it probably is. Considering the sheer number of stars in the cosmos, and the possibly larger number of ...

Running time: 145 minutes. PG-13 (Some bloody images, action, violence, strong language). In theaters June 12. Neither, actually. “Disclosure Day” hews closer to “Minority Report,” with a man on the ...

But there’s much that is thrilling here. The film bangs open sharply with Daniel ineptly springing himself, his kidnapped girlfriend Jane and his backpack of secrets from capture by Wardex’s ...

Saiga antelopes are among the most bizarre-looking mammals on Earth, critically endangered survivors whose oversized inflatable noses make them look like creatures from a science-fiction movie .

When astrobiologists are asked what aliens might look like, many now point not to distant galaxies but to some of the strangest corners of Earth, where researchers on several continents are using ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...