For all the talk about settling Mars, the Moon, or other extraterrestrial environments, it’s interesting that no one ever seems to mention the fact that reproduction in space has never been attempted.

From an evolutionary standpoint, it’s ruthlessly efficient. The queen collects sperm from multiple drones in one flight, stores it for years, and then spends her life laying up to 2,000 eggs a day.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama has clarified comments he made about alien life on a podcast over the weekend.

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

More than 2,500 alien plant species could find suitable conditions in the Arctic, especially in northern Norway and Svalbard.

In this study, the researchers note that rather than think of it as a "human versus machine" investigation, the work should instead highlight AI's ability to assist people in creative endeavors. “By ...

As commercial spaceflight draws ever closer and time spent in space continues to extend, the question of reproductive health beyond the bounds of planet Earth is no longer theoretical but now ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has stopped estimating the dollar value of lives saved in the cost-benefit analyses for new pollution rules. Los Angeles smog in 1979. For decades, government ...

The viral personal AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot has a new name — again. After a legal challenge from Claude’s maker, Anthropic, it had briefly rebranded as Moltbot, but has now settled on ...

(via Cleo Abram) In the middle of the desert, miles from any city, are two HUGE concrete tubes. They’re part of a giant machine running the most precise experiment humans have ever built… ...

Fallout season two, episode five drops a massive bombshell into the world of the series. As Norm MacLean continues to lead Bud’s Buds into the brave new post-Great War world, he comes across a massive ...