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 ...

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.

Tardigrades are practically invincible on Earth, so scientists looked to outer space in search of their kryptonite.

A homemade science lab in a rented luxury home near the Great Park in Irvine has sparked a heavy, multiday response from an FBI hazardous materials team and other federal and local agencies.

America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in. In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover came across a peculiar rocky outcrop on Mars covered in strange spots. On Earth, these ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

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

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

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

Former US President Barack Obama said he’s seen no evidence that aliens have made contact with Earth, clarifying his position on extraterrestrials after comments he made in a podcast went viral.

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