Erich von Däniken, who has died aged 90, was among the first writers to suggest that human civilisation, and even human ...

Rare, 9‑foot-tall red‑necked ostriches, sometimes nicknamed “camel birds” for their towering height and desert stride, have ...

Tiny delays in pulsar signals measured by SETI scientists could aid the search for gravitational waves and extraterrestrial ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

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

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 ...

Learning doesn’t always mean flipping through heavy textbooks or sitting in a long lecture. Sometimes, it just takes ...

He Jiankui spent three years in prison after creating gene-edited babies. Now back at work, he sees a greater opening for ...

One female mouse, among the four experimental mice previously sent into space aboard the Shenzhou-21 crewed spacecraft, delivered nine pups around 6:00 am on December 10 after returning to Earth , ...

In a breakthrough that sounds closer to science fiction than laboratory routine, Japanese researchers have created mice whose ...