Sugar* Season 2 finds its footing by embracing its biggest twist from the start. Colin Farrell delivers another quietly ...

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A planet with twice Earth's gravity produces creatures with different skeletal requirements, different muscular architecture, ...

In what can only be described as a vape cloud of a working paper, the pair examine the possibility of other consciousnesses ...

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

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.

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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 ...

We're still in the definition phase of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), but it seems like every week a new research ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...