Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

Even within the sci-fi genre, though, there is a noteworthy dichotomy, an obvious split between feel-good family adventure and hard-hitting dystopian nightmares, between the genre at its most ...

Ridley Scott’s 8-part sci-fi series has been reborn as the perfect weekend binge while audiences wait for Season 2.

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how the Arctic is at the risk of an invasion of non-native ...

Eddy Keming Chen is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA. Mikhail Belkin is a professor of artificial intelligence, data science, ...

Exploring new worlds comes with a risk no one likes to talk about getting stranded with no quick rescue. On an alien planet every decision matters from finding shelter and water to dealing with an ...

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In the Ross Sea near Antarctica, USCGC Polar Star aided a cruise ship stuck in ice on Jan. 17, amid extreme cold and hazardous marine conditions.

Abstract: We investigate a new task in human motion prediction, which aims to forecast future body poses from historically observed sequences while accounting for arbitrary latency. This differs from ...

When we imagine alien life, we picture monsters, insects, or tentacles—but what if the most realistic aliens are human-like? Evolution tends to solve the same problems with similar designs, and ...