One of the biggest debates in tech at the moment is the question of whether current AI models can become conscious. Whatever “conscious” mea...

The origin of life is one of the biggest mysteries left in science. Now a group of researchers says there wasn't just one originsttr, th...

That life might have come to earth traveling through outer space used to be a fringe theory called ‘panspermia’. But in the past decade or s...

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String theory was supposed to be physics’ grand theory of everything. While it’s (so far) failed in that aspect, string theory’s principles ...

A group of scientists suggests that the origin of life for complex organisms on Earth might have occurred not once, but twice. This challen...

Physicists really do believe that their discipline is the basis for all other sciences because, well, it is. Recently, physicists have been ...

For decades, researchers have treated mass extinction events as global ecological reset buttons, with the fittest survivors taking over. But...

Everybody probably wonders how aliens might look – if they even exist. Will they look like the classic bug-eyed martian men? Or maybe more l...

Scientists believe that all life on Earth originated from one single organism, the Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA. Now, researchers ha...

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The Quest for the Cure: The Science and Stories Behind the Next Generation of Medicines By Brent R. Stockwell Columbia University Press (Ju...

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