For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are ...

Recent studies showing wide cultural and individual differences in biophilia call into question the claim that humans are ...

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The discovery marks a significant moment for a theory that was once dismissed as fringe science but is now gaining serious scientific traction. Panspermia is far from a modern invention. The concept ...

In a recent study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, researchers suggest that Earth once had a giant, Saturn-like ring. This ring, made of space rocks, could explain the surge in ...

OpenAI’s new FrontierScience benchmark shows AI advancing in physics, chemistry, and biology—and exposes the challenge of ...

In this scenario, our first contact with aliens would be tragic. We should look for "loud shouts in the night".

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Explore the year’s most surprising computational revelations, including a new fundamental relationship between time and space ...

AllSci, the AI-powered research and discovery platform transforming how scientific knowledge is created and shared, announced the launch of its new Hypothesis Publishing feature. This release marks ...

Put plainly, the war on saturated fat, rooted in the hypothesis that it causes heart disease, has never been based on sound science. In fact, a large and growing body of evidence reveals that ...

One of the oldest unsolved riddles in planetary science concerns the origin of the moon. Over a century ago, George Darwin ...