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Monitoring a brainless sea star may seem like a curious way to go about studying robotics. But the marine invertebrate’s ...

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 ...

Assembly Theory shifts the search for life from identifying specific molecules to measuring chemical complexity, offering a ...

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Alien Species in Iceland Workshop hosted by the Marine and Freshwater Institute in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, on March 16-17, ...

In 'Project Hail Mary,' a human and an alien figure out how to cooperate across space. In real life, we can't see that fellow ...

A tiny wingless fly has been hiding a biological secret that baffles scientists. Its survival toolkit shouldn't exist.

In a new study, Northwestern University scientists explored how snow flies—small, wingless insects that crawl across snow to ...

Cue the curiosity surrounding extraterrestrial life. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has registered two new federal domains, including Alien.gov and Aliens.gov, though the websites aren't ...