That superhero is a gene called TP53, and for decades scientists have known it as the “guardian of the genome.” In a healthy cell, TP53 acts like both a brake and an emergency stop button. When DNA ...

Many of the most damaging invasions do not simply subtract species; they fundamentally remodel the environment, altering habitats, rewiring interactions, and shifting processes in ways that species ...

Sharks might not be a natural biological group, with most species potentially closer kin to rays than to an oddball group of sharks.

Credit: Sam Kriegman/Northwestern University/Cover Images Engineers in the United States have created AI-powered robots that ...

When Michael Crichton penned the 1971 alien-invasion classic 'The Andromeda Strain,' he couldn't have predicted just how ...

Image: Universal Pictures While the crisis of a global pandemic (or near-extinction) is averted by the end of Wise’s sci-fi thriller, the implications are still dire. As humans tend to cycle through ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder ...

The X-Men franchise tends to focus on Marvel'smost powerful and most glamorous mutants, yet for every cosmic goddess, scientific genius, unstoppable Juggernaut, or unkillable killer, there are just as ...

Many people who don’t believe one conspiracy theory about that station—known as the High-frequency Active Auroral Research ...

Stellar Tactics is a Sci-Fi RPG featuring a compelling narrative, deep strategic turn-based combat and rewarding open-world space exploration.

Most lethal mutations in wild fruit flies are driven by newly transferred jumping genes, not small DNA errors, according to a new study from Duke University. The findings, published in PLOS Biology, ...

The alien-like machines, described as ‘legged metamachines’, are built from autonomous modules that can be snapped together in a variety of forms. Researchers say the approach could lead to robots ...