The odds are that life is out there – but rather than little green men, it may look more like hydrothermal vent tubeworms ...

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

Life may have started in sticky, rock-hugging gels rather than inside cells. Researchers suggest these primitive, biofilm-like materials could trap and concentrate molecules, giving early chemistry a ...

A mind-controlling fungus wakes from Cold Storage in Jonny Campbell's charmingly silly gross-out horror-comedy.

According to an app called Sobbefy, answering yes to questions like these meant I could be a love addict. For months, I had ...

In the middle of Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert lies something that looks straight out of a nightmare. The Door to Hell which ...

LOOLING calm and relaxed, Baraka Samson walked to lane 4 as he and the other six runners from Class V lined for the 100m race at Filbert Bayi School ground during the recently staged Inter-class ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

Microbial communities hidden deep inside the caves of New Mexico have fascinated scientists who study extreme environments and search for extraterrest.

Scientists have made the first step towards creating new species in the lab. Researchers have used artificial intelligence to ...

The Boundless Deep by Richard Holmes is an enthralling biography of Alfred Tennyson in his youth.

A HuffPost investigation found how the Trump administration systematically destroyed safeguards for detainees, subjecting them to abuse and neglect.