Best-selling Swiss author Erich von Daeniken, who built a lucrative career on his argument, rubbished by scientists and ...

Artificial intelligence systems that look nothing alike on the surface are starting to behave as if they share a common ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does ...

The Voynich manuscript has long been shorthand for the unsolved and the unknowable, a late medieval codex filled with looping ...

The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

Brain–computer interfaces are beginning to truly "understand" Chinese. The INSIDE Institute for NeuroAI, in collaboration with Huashan Hospital affiliated with Fudan University, the National Center ...

No one really knows what Disclosure Day is about — and that seems to be exactly what Steven Spielberg wants. The acclaimed director's mysterious new UFO movie was first announced in April 2024, per ...

Colossal Biosciences is pulling one final surprise out of its hat in 2025. Announced today, the company’s nonprofit arm—The Colossal Foundation—secured an additional $50 million in funding, doubling ...

Steven Spielberg is synonymous with science fiction, and he’s especially associated with sci-fi stories that feature aliens, but it’s actually been 20 years since the director of E.T. and Close ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...