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A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

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The big-idea explorers at Aperture dive into the Fermi Paradox to investigate why we haven't found any evidence of alien life ...

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A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...

The Trump administration has tapped a Harvard professor with controversial theories about aliens to lead a team of scientists ...

Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House ...

A new study suggests that learning and remembering speech relies more on how the brain processes sounds and sensations than on the areas that control mouth and face movements. The discovery could ...

Is it a bird? Is it an alien? No, it’s just a dog with a shuttlecock! Watch this hilarious visual trickery that will make you ...