In High on Life 2, you are presented with a choice: press a Red Button to get free money, but someone random in the world ...

Turns out evidence of alien life might well have been discovered much closer to home.

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

From its earliest days, Star Trek was never just about starships and strange new worlds. Beneath the optimism of a better future and adventure was a recurring anxiety about power—specifically, what ...

Planning to play High on Life 2 but can't remember what happened back in 2022? Here's a full recap of the first game to get you up to speed.

Scientists have long believed that longevity is shaped by lifestyle choices; however, a new study reveals that genes may play a larger role in determining how long people live. Genetics accounts for ...

Octopuses break so many biological expectations that scientists still struggle to explain how they ended up this way through normal evolution. From how their brains work to how their bodies heal, ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

Which genes are required for turning embryonic stem cells into brain cells, and what happens when this process goes wrong? In a new study published today in Nature Neuroscience, researchers led by ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

A new genetic mapping strategy reveals how entire networks of genes work together to cause disease, filling in the missing links left by traditional genetic studies. The technique could transform how ...