If forced to choose one descriptor for the octopus, the best word may be “otherworldly.” These truly amazing marine animals ...

Cena closed out his in-ring career in December with a loss to Gunther on Saturday Night’s Main Event. It was a big year for ...

At the heart of the series were unforgettable characters like the adventurous Captain Kirk (William Shatner), the passionate Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley), and, of course, the logical and fascinating Mr ...

Uri Alon was long puzzled by a textbook statistic: Longevity, the thinking went, was about 20 percent in our genes. “That makes you think what’s the rest of the 80 percent: Is it the lifestyle? Why ...

DNA may be the blueprint for life on Earth, but the deeper scientists look, the less certain it seems that the rest of the universe has to follow the same rules. From RNA worlds and synthetic genetic ...

During today's Xbox Partner Preview stream, Rebellion, the studio behind Sniper Elite and Atomfall, revealed an all-new game. Alien Deathstorm is an atmospheric first-person shooter set on an alien ...

In 1976, Richard Dawkins published a book titled after an idea he’d come up with while teaching a lecture on animal behaviour for his PhD supervisor. It just so happened that the idea of The Selfish ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed “the genetics” of assailants in a string of recent attacks across the country. He made the comments after attacks at a university in Virginia and a synagogue ...

E.T. could be phoning home — but we’re not hearing the call. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from ...

Dustin Vidrine's sight is disappearing — shrinking, really. He has retinitis pigmentosa, a rare, inherited eye disease that runs in his family. By the time he was in his 20s, he noticed that his ...

President Donald Trump says he is going to declassify files about aliens and UFOs. That could mean huge payouts for traders betting on alien disclosure on the prediction platform Polymarket. Aliens ...