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

Green Bank Telescope rules out alien signals in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS after rigorous scientific deep search.

President Trump had gone to the 2024 election promising to disclose everything about one of his MAGA fan base’s favourite conspiracies: that aliens are real, aliens are among us, and aliens secretly ...

Scientists have invented a low cost, zero-gravity microscope called FlightScope that successfully conducted experiments on the vomit comet.

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

Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

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

Obama’s remark fuelled the conspiracy theory claiming that the US government was hiding aliens at Area 51, a highly classified air force site in Nevada.

Barack Obama has disclosed aliens are “real” in a revealing exchange where he also discussed the secrets of the infamous Area 51 base. The former US President appeared to provide a tantalising new ...

Google continues to turn the screws on free YouTube users, expanding a test that restricts access to song lyrics on YouTube Music. Users without a premium subscription have found that Google’s ...

(via Be Smart) Ant bridges, bee hives, bird flocks, fish schools and more all demonstrate how intelligent behavior can emerge from pretty stupid animals, and how that strange intelligence can solve ...