Skywatch: As Viking mission anniversary looms, the search for Martian life lives on

NASA’s Viking 1 lander set down in the Chryse Planitia region of Mars. Its identical twin, Viking 2, followed on Sept. 3 of ...

What Makes Humans Stupid

But human beings, equipped with language, abstraction, technology, institutions, and ideology, can be stupid on a truly ...

Scientists say AI is falling for 'alien hoaxes' too easily, researchers say

An AI stress tested by researchers confidently said it had seen signatures of life when they weren't in the data.
Opinion

In this loony bin, it’s appropriate that a bin is the best person to take on Farage

Sources say that the Great Clacton Scam was cooked up at 4am in the John Wayne lounge, Mar-a-Lago – mostly to impress Tiffany Lamp, Donald Trump’s 18-year-old attorney general.
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These Secret Washington Caves Are So Otherworldly, You’ll Forget What State You’re In

The Lake Lenore Caves near Soap Lake, Washington, offer exactly that kind of alien landscape experience, minus the need for a ...

A Surprising Meteorite Discovery Could Change the Hunt for Life on Mars

ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover will use MOMA to search for ancient Martian life by analyzing chiral organic molecules.
New Scientist

The 4 best science-fiction shows of 2026 so far

The first six months of 2026 have seen bright threads in sci- fi series including Fallout and Paradise. But for pure gold, ...
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The (most important) Marvel Comics history of Apocalypse

The villains in the X-Men comics are some of the most colorful and interesting in Marvel’s long history. Some have proven to ...