A complete Cretaceous shellfish fossil. (University of Portsmouth) Nature has imbued its mothers with many surprisingly ...
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Steven Spielberg’s Aliens

Disclosure Day has plenty of UFOs and extraterrestrial species but very little of the human insights found in the filmmaker’s ...
Scientists have discovered a new species of flatworm, the deepest free-living one ever recorded, in the Pacific Ocean's Kuril ...
With over three decades of pioneering research in forest genetics, biodiversity conservation and ecological restoration, Dr ...
Could humans spread Earth life beyond our planet? Astrobiologists explain where extremophiles might survive and why the risks ...
Scientists propose building a lab on the moon to screen Mars and other space samples for alien microbes before they ever ...
What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...
Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...
Jellyfish have returned to the Gulf of Maine, and some can pack a nasty sting.
Teetering near endangered status, the starlet sea anemone produces “an ancient mechanism” for fighting viruses that ...
“Weird”, “alien” and “like a creature from Harry Potter” – these are some of the descriptions given to an unusual crab found ...
The planets are extremely large, with TOI-791 b being about the same size as Jupiter, and TOI-791 c even larger. Yet, they ...