A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in human evolution—brain growth and the reduction in the size of the face and ...

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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 ...

Discover how subtle changes in your eyes could offer early clues to dementia, years before symptoms appear. This video explores new research suggesting that retinal thickness may reflect neurological ...

A set of protocols telling scientists what to do – and what not to do – if they ever detect evidence of intelligent life ...

Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish may have evolved large brains because of the challenges posed by their environments rather ...

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 ...

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

Avi Loeb is leading a new Science Advisory Council tasked with finding the origin of unidentified objects spotted by military pilots and others. It's part of a broader White House effort studying ...

The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more ...