At the heart of life is an information-rich molecule, DNA, bearing a language-based code that specifies the construction of ...

July 1996 The Latest Fashion in Irrationality When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven by Wendy Kaminer FINALLY, after nearly ten years of getting ...

If you loved watching Ryland Grace MacGyver his way through impossible problems in space, you need to meet Mark Watney. He's ...

Until the U.S. government has data or samples of alien material that can be shared, the story of extraterrestrial visitors is ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed from other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. In the story, these ...

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The University of Arizona is opening a new exhibit this weekend that explores one of humanity's most enduring questions: Are ...

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods — such as octopuses and squid — have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to ...

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The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries in evolution. It may not be that ...