Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...

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

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 ...

Power Rangers ended its weirdest experiment, and this show in particular has been essentially buried in the decades since. Through the multiple eras of the franchise, Power Rangers fans have been ...

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.

For decades, scientists have searched the skies for signs of extraterrestrial technology. A study from EPFL asks a sharp ...

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

An experiment started in 1927 by Thomas Parnell aimed to prove pitch is a super-viscous fluid. Over 96 years, only nine drops have fallen from the funnel, with scientists waiting decades to witness ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...