We often assume mathematics is the one language every intelligent species must share. But while physical laws may be ...

All life on Earth depends on DNA—but that doesn’t mean life everywhere must follow the same blueprint. Scientists have shown that alternative genetic molecules, including RNA-based life, synthetic ...

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Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

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Astrobiologists propose that alien civilizations need accessible coal deposits to industrialize exoplanets and become detectable from Earth.

Free-floating planets, or as they are more commonly known, rogue planets, wander interstellar space completely alone. Saying there might be a lot of them is a bit of an understatement. Recent ...

Ancient Greeks were xenophobic yet practiced hospitality, balancing fear of outsiders with cultural exchange and social cooperation.

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Witnesses recall the terrifying moments after back-to-back shootings in downtown Mobile Sunday night, leaving one person dead and multiple people injured.

The combustible sedimentary rock, better known as coal, was not only crucial to the onset of advanced technology here on Earth, but it should also be key to the development of advanced E.T.s residing ...

Life may have started in sticky, rock-hugging gels rather than inside cells. Researchers suggest these primitive, biofilm-like materials could trap and concentrate molecules, giving early chemistry a ...