Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Human-inspired robots, aptly called humanoids, have emerged as the tech industry’s big bet on what comes next. They stand ...

Killing the protected animals may be the only way to stop them from eating too many of the Pacific Northwest’s endangered ...

New UChicago Divinity School course uses religious texts and popular sci-fi to shed light on what it means to be human ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

The deep sea also harbours some of the most intriguing and alien-like species in existence, yet for several centuries, these ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have, for the first time, recorded the songs of the Chinese hwamei Garrulax ...

It's a beautiful night. Just you, a bottle of wine and your partner drifting through the cosmos in a UFO. As your caress ...

"Star Trek" is home to countless alien species, many of whom offer beloved characters. Some are not. We rank the 10 most ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

The truth is out there — and late President George H.W. Bush apparently knew it — telling a federal official that an alien made contact with humans at a secretive New Mexico air base in 1964, ...