The threats of AI underline the urgency of a revolutionary, ecosocialist break with the civilisation of capitalist growth.

In this idea, life’s first steps may have happened inside sticky gels attached to surfaces, similar in some ways to modern microbial biofilms. Biofilms are the thin layers of bacteria you see on rocks ...

A recent paper published in December to the journal Religions posed a simple yet profound question with its headline: ...

Could Steven Spielberg's new movie, Disclosure Day, be linked to Close Encounters of the Third Kind? The trailer might have ...

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 ...

How did life begin? A team of scientists from Japan, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, and Germany believes the answer may involve sticky gels that coated ...

Is intelligent alien life really out there? With powerful telescopes identifying more potentially habitable planets each year ...

The Dark Rites of Arkham is a well-made ode to Lovecraft's Mythos which will appear to anyone who loves Call of Cthulhu and '90s adventure games.

The new plot twist is that in order to keep enough nitrogen and phosphorus near its surface, a planet has to start out with ...

Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system’s mind—examining its neurons, running it through ...

Will artificial intelligence ever be able to reason, learn, and solve problems at levels comparable to humans? Experts at the University of California San Diego believe the answer is yes—and that such ...

It’s no longer the start of a joke. Cool nerds are now chilling in bars, with lectures on science, history, poetry and art.