One oddity is in how human hierarchies form. In other animals, fighting translates physical strength into dominance. In humans, however, people often happily defer to leaders, even seeking them out.

From an evolutionary standpoint, it’s ruthlessly efficient. The queen collects sperm from multiple drones in one flight, stores it for years, and then spends her life laying up to 2,000 eggs a day.

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

More than 2,500 alien plant species could find suitable conditions in the Arctic, especially in northern Norway and Svalbard.

On Thursday the U.S. president ordered the release of federal files related to UFOs and aliens, although no evidence of extraterrestrials visiting Earth is known to exist ...

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 ...

One hundred experiments placed humans head-to-head with some of the most advanced robots ever built. Each test measured speed, strength, logic, creativity, and adaptability under pressure. Some ...

Was God an astronaut? Could space travellers have visited Earth thousands of years ago and kick-started human civilisation by sharing their technological secrets? More mind-blowing still, did they ...

Many organisms leverage showy colors for attracting mates. Because color is a property of light (determined by its wavelength), it is easy for humans to see how these colors are used in animal ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

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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, ...