A NASA astronaut preparing for a grueling eight-month stint in orbit reveals a plan to test for extraterrestrial life.

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In 2016, during the first Trump campaign, I wrote an article asking whether American democracy could survive the reduction of politics to entertainment. At the time, the question seemed exaggerated to ...

A nutrition scientist applies metabolism, biology and food science to one of science fiction's oldest questions.

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Elon Musk, the first private individual worth more than a thousand billion dollars (one trillion), launched SpaceX stock on ...

The surprising discovery of mysterious blobs inside our cells is revolutionising our understanding of how life works, and how ...

Pomacea canaliculata, commonly known as the apple snail, is a pest commonly found in Hong Kong's wetlands and farmlands. It ...

Maybe we did not create life in the biological sense, but maybe we created something stranger: an alien form of ...

The website, which compares human beings to extraterrestrials, touts arrest numbers from the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown. But some of its details are really out there.