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Convergent evolution on alien worlds

Science Fiction often shows us aliens who look much like humans, and suggest this is a result of convergent evolution to useful traits. But is such convergence to the human form or mind likely with ...
Radio telescopes have long scanned quiet patches of sky for a lone, artificial-sounding ping, but a growing body of research ...
The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.
Pierpaolo Piccioli unveils his sporty vision for the house.
Fayetteville promoter Roger Barrett of On the Map on Wednesday announced that Cut Worms will perform at George's on Thursday, ...
In July 1930, Rabindranath Tagore visited Albert Einstein in Caputh, near Berlin, at his summerhouse. The meeting of the two ...
Alien technology. Government cover-ups. And ghosts? All may be calling Wright-Patterson Air Force Base home, according to author and former base employee Ray Szymanski. Szymanski will be discussing ...
The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...
A federal judge on Monday said the U.S. government denied due process to the Venezuelan men it deported to a prison in El Salvador in March after President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act. The ...
When Erik the Red, the father of Leif Erikson, was banished from Iceland in 982, it’s said he called the island Greenland in ...