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

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If an alien intelligence were hiding somewhere on Earth, many scientists suspect it might look something like an octopus.

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There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer ...

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Teetering near endangered status, the starlet sea anemone produces “an ancient mechanism” for fighting viruses that ...

Some creative calculations using bug traps, epidemiology and trees suggest there are some 20 million unique insect species on ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...