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 ...
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb argues 3I/ATLAS and other interstellar objects may hint at alien technology, drawing fame, ...
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has been appointed by the White House to lead a team investigating unidentified anomalous ...
Some frogs have evolved features so strange that scientists struggle to explain them, and a few look less like amphibians ...
In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...
Rare 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France look nearly identical to living species, revealing a body ...
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 ...
Amanda Lohrey’s 10th novel, Capture, follows a clinical psychologist researching patients who say they have been abducted.
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 ...