Mud volcanoes on Mars could be the cause of distinctive features that most researchers had thought were left over from ancient lava flows. Tens of tho...
Jun 01
How cosmic rays may have sparked life on Earth — and what this could mean for life on other planets
Long before animals roamed the Earth, before the first bacteria, and even before the development of DNA, tiny molecules found they could make simple c...
May 01
Is AI already conscious?
The ultimate goal of most high-level AI research is the development of a general artificial intelligence (GAI). In essence, what we want is a syntheti...
The more researchers know about how the coronavirus attaches, invades and hijacks human cells, the more effective the search for drugs to fight it. Th...
The more researchers know about how the coronavirus attaches, invades and hijacks human cells, the more effective the search for drugs to fight it. Th...
The UK government has said on many occasions that it is “following the science” in tackling COVID-19. Yet which science and which scientists are being...
Just three months after China first notified the World Health Organization about a deadly new coronavirus, studies of numerous antiviral treatments an...
Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, described the horror of the authoritarian regime of Gilead. In this theocracy, self-preservation was the...
What would convince you that aliens existed? The question came up recently at a conference on astrobiology, held at Stanford University in California....
Do you ever wish you could just turn on the happy chemicals in your brain? Imagine how much easier it would make getting out of bed each morning, gett...