A scientist argued that a Viking lander experiment in 1976 detected microbial life on Mars and urged NASA to repeat the tests before future missions. Trump wants his peace board signed in Davos.

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Studying how honeybees process information may help humans communicate with aliens, according to a new thought experiment. Although the ancestors of honeybees and humans diverged in evolution more ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In this short video we will explain the physical cause of service tension and what happens when you add soap to water. We will show the energetic nature of surface tension by means of an experiment ...

If humans ever receive a message from intelligent aliens, the biggest challenge may not be how far away they are, but how to communicate at all. Our nearest star system is more than four light-years ...

Personalized algorithms are designed to show us content we’re likely to engage with, but new research suggests they can quietly undermine how we learn. When people rely on algorithm-curated ...