Erich von Däniken, who has died aged 90, was among the first writers to suggest that human civilisation, and even human ...

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From Borg battles to impossible moral choices, these are the 'Star Trek' episodes that define the hit sci-fi franchise.

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When scientists pulled genetic material from a pair of naturally preserved bodies in the central Sahara, they expected to find familiar echoes of today’s Africans and Eurasians. Instead, the ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

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

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Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

Mice have remained the focal point for life sciences research for the past several decades. Their universality in biomedicine lies in the fact that they present unparalleled insights into human ...

Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

In a bizarre first, the South China Morning Post reports, doctors in China have surgically grafted a patient’s severed ear to her foot. The patient, a woman identified by their surname Sun, suffered a ...