Now we have the opposite problem: Obama says UFOs are real and the world shrugs.

The Alien and Blade Runner director created something truly unique with Prometheus, but its thematic depth is matched by his ...

While idea may violate Occam’s razor, “it remains a speculative but logically open alternative,” says biologist Robert Endres ...

Survival of the fittest. Nature red in tooth and claw. The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed ...

A giant virus encodes part of the protein-making toolkit of cells that gives it greater control over its amoeba host, raising questions about how it evolved and how such beings relate to living organi ...

As the Sun slowly grows brighter over billions of years, our planet will eventually become uninhabitable and may one day be consumed.

LOS ANGELES - Victor Wembanyama knows he’s the main character. An All-Star starter for the first time, he sticks out even among the NBA’s biggest stars who have ...

Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth ...

Ultimately, the gel-first hypothesis does not claim to provide a definitive answer to the origin of life. Rather, it offers a conceptual framework—one that integrates soft-matter physics, systems ...

A mind-controlling fungus wakes from Cold Storage in Jonny Campbell's charmingly silly gross-out horror-comedy.

Life may have started in sticky, rock-hugging gels rather than inside cells. Researchers suggest these primitive, biofilm-like materials could trap and concentrate molecules, giving early chemistry a ...