Northwestern University engineers have developed the first modular robots with athletic intelligence. They can be combined and recombined in the wild, recover from injury and keep moving no matter ...

US lawmakers worry Trump may put 'boots on the ground' in Iran Democratic U.S. senators expressed alarm on Tuesday about the Iran war, saying they were worried that President Donald Trump could deploy ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

Humans are often described as “super-predators,” but wildlife may not respond to us as uniformly as once thought. People have ...

"If a signal gets broadened by its own star's environment, it can slip below our detection thresholds, even if it's there." ...

Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to ...

Some tigers do become serial man-eaters. But the evidence suggests they are driven by necessity rather than preference.

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

Some accusations stemmed from an FBI interview with a unidentified man. There was no credible evidence to support them.

A former senior analyst for The Bank of England warned the bank to prepare for alien contact, citing the United States’ process for disclosing new information. Former Bank of England analyst warns of ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...