All life on Earth depends on DNA—but that doesn’t mean life everywhere must follow the same blueprint. Scientists have shown ...

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

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

CeCe Moore said police could use investigative genetic genealogy to track down the suspect responsible for Guthrie's ...

Two naturally mummified individuals buried roughly 7,000 years ago in a Libyan rock shelter have yielded ancient genomes that reveal a previously unknown, long-isolated North African lineage. The ...

The atmosphere changes considerably when Aislín McGuckin, as Kiera’s fearsome mother, Sandra, crashes in the door wielding ...

Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences, which has produced a trio of modern-day dire wolves and the woolly mouse, seeks to bring back extinct species.

And so, in celebration of the beauty of love in all its many, sometimes very tentacle-heavy forms, we offer up this: A look ...

Movies like Solaris and Her have challenged the boundaries and conventions of the sci-fi genre and are capable of changing ...

Everyone agrees that adoption is a big, immovable fact in someone’s life, but it’s considered awkward if they mention it, ...

By looking at how sci-fi movies used emergent technologies to discuss pressing issues, we get a clearer picture of the 1990s zeitgeist.

I n February 2016, after exchanging email pleasantries with the left-wing public intellectual Noam Chomsky and extending an invitation to his private island, Jeffrey Epstein recommended an article.