America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in. In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover came across a peculiar rocky outcrop on Mars covered in strange spots. On Earth, these ...

Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...

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

James Gunn recently looked back on his time with the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a new social media post. On Threads, the DC Studios co-CEO shared a picture of a character with pointy ears from ...

If you've been following exoplanet research over the last couple of years, you've definitely heard of K2-18b. Located 124 ...

The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has ...

Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

Power Rangers ended its weirdest experiment, and this show in particular has been essentially buried in the decades since. Through the multiple eras of the franchise, Power Rangers fans have been ...

Gabriel Gomes built an agent that turns plain English into physical experiments, enabling research that humans alone could never sustain ...

On General Hospital, the impossible has finally happened in Port Charles, and fans are absolutely reeling because the very much dead-and-buried Detective Nathan West has resurfaced.