New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.

Many people who don’t believe one conspiracy theory about that station—known as the High-frequency Active Auroral Research ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

For decades, insiders and whistleblowers have claimed that beneath the Archuleta Mesa in New Mexico lies a multi-level ...

A newly released CIA file has exposed a top secret program that developed methods to control behavior using drugs in food, cigarettes and even vaccines.

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...

Human experimentation made many modern medical advances possible—but history shows what happens when ethics are ignored. Across wars, regimes, and institutions, people were subjected to cruel and ...

Eddy Keming Chen is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA. Mikhail Belkin is a professor of artificial intelligence, data science, ...

In this study, the researchers note that rather than think of it as a "human versus machine" investigation, the work should instead highlight AI's ability to assist people in creative endeavors. “By ...

It’s an Rx for disaster. Humans trust medical advice from artificial intelligence over flesh and blood doctors — even though the robots often dole out bogus information, according to a new study. A ...

NASA’s unprecedented decision to prematurely end a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) because of a sick astronaut is shining a light on how the agency prepares for medical problems and ...

Scarlett Howard currently has funding from the Australian Research Council and the Hermon Slade Foundation. Adrian Dyer receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Alexander von ...