NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. Found inside a ...

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Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on ...

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

James Gunn promised a DC Universe built on gods and monsters, and the first wave of those monsters is already here. His new continuity does not treat giant creatures as disposable action scenes. It ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.