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

Being able to spot the Earth, let alone any signs of life on our planet, would require an enormous telescope from 66 million ...

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 ...

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.

Using gold flakes, salt water, and light, scientists have made the universe’s invisible binding forces visible in color. The discovery opens new possibilities for studying how matter organizes itself ...

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

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 ...

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Space Force and NASA experiment lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia Dec. 18 at 12:03 a.m. Eastern to test a new small-satellite architecture ...

All accounting firms should be eyeing private equity, according to speakers at Accounting Today's 2025 PE Summit, whether as an option or for the way it will continue to rapidly transform the ...