Alien director Ridley Scott eventually returned to the franchise, but couldn't complete his ambitious plans. Here's what his ...

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer ...

Is the rest of the cosmos a pristine environment awaiting the arrival of humanity’s “post-human” descendants? Or is advanced ...

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.

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

A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a ...

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

Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that consciousness is likely 'substrate flexible', challenging the belief that only flesh-and-blood Earth organisms can be truly aware.

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

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

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