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Should we grant legal rights to extraterrestrial lifeforms before we find them?

Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.

From threats of solar storms to cosmic radiation, new efforts to warn Earthlings are launching

A new roadmap for identifying the ocean's singing ghosts

Making sense of a new era of time-domain astronomy from the Rubin Observatory

This “Phantom Galaxy” is riddled with holes that may be the handiwork of violent stars

What frogs teach us about sex, science, and the unexpected messiness of biology

Sweet additives like saccharin and aspartame might fast-track cognitive decline

This visionary new initiative would do more than save the ocean. It would regenerate it.

They seem to prefer fruits with the highest alcohol content

These snakes are among the few animals that can kill the regal felines

Psychologist Paul Bloom on why chatbots make good companions. And why they don't.