The octopus is one of the strangest animals ever to evolve. With 500 million neurons—most of them located in its eight arms ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has been appointed by the White House to lead a team investigating unidentified anomalous ...

A polarizing Harvard astronomer has been appointed to lead a White House panel studying UFOs. Avi Loeb is leading a new ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

BOULDER, Colo., June 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Author Robert Dresner announces the release of The Astral Imperative, a thought-provoking science fiction series that explores the dynamics of human ...

The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more ...

In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...

The Marvel Universe has a rich history, with some of its secrets taking ages before their truth was discovered.

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about where you live than about what consciousness really requires.

A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...

Octopuses, bees, and dogs all process information differently. Even within the narrow confines of one planet, evolution produced a wide range of nervous systems rather than a single design. A new ...