The Science: Europa has been considered as a top contender for alien life for even longer than Enceladus, thanks to its massive under-ice liquid water oceans. It also displays water vapor plumes ...

If we were to ever find alien life, breaking the news to the general public could be much more difficult than one might think ...

Baker’s yeast isn’t just useful in the kitchen — it may also be built for space. Researchers found that yeast cells can ...

It’s a plant! It’s a fungus! It’s… an entirely new type of lifeform hitherto unknown to science? That appears to be the case for a puzzling, spire-shaped organism that lived over 400 million years ago ...

It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on the idea that memories could arise from random fluctuations in entropy ...

The former superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district pleaded guilty Thursday to two federal charges, including falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen. Ian Andre Roberts, a native of Guyana in ...

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient landscapes at heights of up to 8 meters. They had smooth trunk-like pillars and ...

Before trees came along some 400 million years ago, our planet’s landscape was dominated by enigmatic, spire-shaped life-forms that towered more than 25 feet above the ground. Their trunklike fossils ...

A former senior analyst for The Bank of England warned the bank to prepare for alien contact, citing the United States’ process for disclosing new information. Former Bank of England analyst warns of ...

How large is a large language model? Think about it this way. In the center of San Francisco there’s a hill called Twin Peaks from which you can view nearly the entire city. Picture all of it—every ...

Nature is truly captivating. A time-lapse video capturing the growth of an array of wild mushrooms in a forest is all the proof you need. (Click here to watch the video if the embed does not appear.) ...

A major event before New Year's Eve could see one of Baba Vanga's more horrifying prophecies come true With just days to go until the start 2026, you would be forgiven for thinking that 2025 has shown ...