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

It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on ...

The curious minds at What If explore what would happen if scientists found life on Europa, revealing icy ecosystems, alien biology, and human exploration.

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

For decades, astronomers have chased fleeting hints that something alive might be lurking beyond Earth, only to watch each ...

James Gunn promised a DC Universe built on gods and monsters, and the first wave of those monsters is already here. His new continuity does not treat giant creatures as disposable action scenes. It ...

Insects are often seen as invaders due to high-profile species like the yellow-legged (Asian) hornet, the harlequin ladybird ...

Large language models have grown so vast and complex that even the people who build them no longer fully understand how they work. A single modern ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some ...