Space is full of radiation, which is bad for both babies and non-babies alike, but we also have to worry about how microgravity affects the human body, too.

The deep sea anglerfish lives in a place where sunlight never reaches and pressure crushes almost everything. In that darkness, evolution took a strange and unsettling path. Bioluminescent lures, ...

A new biography of the Berlin-born philosopher emphasizes his combination of stubborn unworldliness and startling prescience.

Researchers uncovered the phenological responses of alpine plants under climate change and their impacts on plant growth and reproduction have been systematically revealed through the periodic ...

I just got a whiff,” said Peter Harrison, a marine scientist, as he leaned over the edge of the boat and pointed his ...

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.

The threats of AI underline the urgency of a revolutionary, ecosocialist break with the civilisation of capitalist growth.

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

The belief that the pyramids were not built by human hands has fascinated conspiracy theorists for decades. No one promoted that idea more persistently than Swiss author Erich von Däniken, often ...

President Trump directed his administration to release files on UFOs and any "alien and extraterrestrial life," an issue that has drawn decades of fascination — and spawned more than a few wild ...

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