At first glance, it looks like an alien eye—a gorgeous blue iris around a carmel-colored pupil, thick eyelashes radiating out ...

Aquatic invasive species continued to spread in 2025 despite the best efforts of state wildlife officials. Volunteers and ...

Don’t Stop, Girlypop is ridiculously fun and fast-paced. Here’s The Escapist’s first impressions of this breakneck-speed ...

Most days blur together, which is why moments that defy explanation stand out so sharply. These stories describe encounters ...

With its vivid blue float and glowing, radiating tentacles, the blue button jelly looks more like a creature from science ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

Clairvoyant Baba Vanga, long believed by devotees to have foreseen events such as 9/11 and the COVID-19 pandemic, predicted alien visitors and the outbreak of World War III for this year. The blind ...

High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for potential alien life elsewhere. Saturn's moon Enceladus (shown here in a 2006 ...

The cross-section of Jeopardy! viewers and indie music fans might remember Texas software engineer Stella Trout, who competed on the show last June and generated some attention when people observed ...

Usually, when a musician pops up on Jeopardy! it’s in the form of a clue (or, if you’re lucky like the Talking Heads, a whole category). Indie favorite Snail Mail made it onto the famed quiz show in a ...

Scarlett Howard currently has funding from the Australian Research Council and the Hermon Slade Foundation. Adrian Dyer receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Alexander von ...