A planet with twice Earth's gravity produces creatures with different skeletal requirements, different muscular architecture, ...

The octopus is one of the strangest animals ever to evolve. With 500 million neurons—most of them located in its eight arms rather than its brain—it can solve puzzles, recognize individual people, ...

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With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...

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

Men, a historic four-issue crossover series from Kieron Gillen, Geraldo Borges, Chris Claremont and more, arrives in September, and we have a first look at the upcoming event for you.

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

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.

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

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

Marvel is set to launch Aliens Vs X-Men later this year, stylised as AVX, with Kieron Gillen leading the series. Aliens Vs X-Men also features a story by Chris Cl ...