Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

"Star Trek" is a staple of pop culture. Much of its visuals and iconography, as well as its characters and fictional technology, have become part of the culture at large. From Captain Kirk to the ...

A forgotten Star Trek episode was secretly inspired by a classic sci-fi film, shaping the reveal of one of the franchise’s most iconic aliens.

The guy pouring my beer in Anchorage told me that he knew there was no truth to decades-old rumors about a research facility 200 miles to the northeast. Nobody was up there talking to aliens or ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...

If the government confirms nonhuman intelligence, psychological research offers clues about the range of ways humans might ...

Large-scale evolutionary analysis shows most zoonotic viruses emerge without prior adaptation, while passing through a laboratory leaves detectable genetic signatures, offering a new tool to interpret ...