Author Robert Dresner announces the release of The Astral Imperative, a thought-provoking science fiction series that explores the dynamics of human evolution, the uncanny impact of AI, and the outer ...

The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more ...

Books like Children of Time and Flowers for Algernon do an incredible job holding the audience's interest throughout their ...

In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...

If you're looking for a highly replayable JRPG, here are 8 NieR: Automata moments that completely change its meaning once you ...

A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about where you live than about what consciousness really requires.

Octopuses, bees, and dogs all process information differently. Even within the narrow confines of one planet, evolution produced a wide range of nervous systems rather than a single design. A new ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...

This potentially all-female burial site opens up new questions regarding Homo naledi’s culture and social structure. If the ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...