A California family whose home was surrounded by FBI agents and SWAT Team members after “suspicious” items were found in its ...

Hearty bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the universe in a completely different way than we do. Physicist Daniel Whiteson exp ...

Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.

The FBI's week-long investigation into "suspicious materials" found at an Irvine home stems from a college student's science project, his family's attorney said.

The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has ...

Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

Gabriel Gomes built an agent that turns plain English into physical experiments, enabling research that humans alone could never sustain ...

Altered States follows scientist Edward Jessup as he pushes the limits of consciousness using isolation tanks and psychedelic substances, convinced reality extends beyond ordinary perception. His ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Space Force and NASA experiment lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia Dec. 18 at 12:03 a.m. Eastern to test a new small-satellite architecture ...