The original design choice behind Star Trek's most famous half-Vulcan would have made for a very different vibe.

One of the biggest joys for a manga reader is to discover a mostly unknown series hidden among the weekly releases, and then ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Abstract: Tactile and kinesthetic perceptions are crucial for human dexterous manipulation, enabling reliable grasping of objects via proprioceptive sensorimotor integration. For robotic hands, even ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” ...

I admit it. I was utterly swept up by the 3I/Atlas mania earlier this fall.

Officials revealed that an alleged human smuggling operation involving over a dozen individuals has been uncovered inside a Texas home. Authorities with the Texas Department of Public Safety and ...

Decades ago, a spacecraft suggested Saturn's largest moon, Titan, had an ocean. New observations suggest that the liquid may look more like slush. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

We look at the promise and peril of robots that look like humans. By Sam Sifton I am the host of this newsletter. Scientists and entrepreneurs are working tirelessly toward a strange goal: robots that ...

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Artificial intelligence systems designed to physically emulate natural brains can simulate human brain activity before being trained, according to new research from Johns Hopkins University. “The work ...