Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to ...

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The New Queer Wave legend upgraded his 2005 classic, using tricks he discovered while making his latest, 'I Want Your Sex,' ...

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When people imagine aliens, they usually picture biological creatures similar to life on Earth. But many scientists argue that advanced intelligence is unlikely to remain biological for long. Machines ...

There’s no denying the allure of alien artifacts. Science fiction is awash in the material remnants of extraterrestrial civilizations, which surface in everything from the classic books of Arthur C.

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.

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David Szalay’s “Flesh” is “almost certainly the most monosyllabic Booker prizewinner ever”, said Johanna Thomas-Corr in The Times. The brooding protagonist, István, largely speaks in “gruff, gruntish ...