The curious minds at What If explore what would happen if you mated with an alien.

Latin American cinema has spent years quietly building genre muscle, and the results are finally arriving at the highest stages in the world. The first official teaser for ‘Pacifico’, a new creature ...

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about ...

Octopuses, bees, and dogs all process information differently. Even within the narrow confines of one planet, evolution produced a wide range of nervous systems rather than a single design. A new ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

Over three days at the American Diabetes Association’s annual scientific conference, I glimpsed our post-fat future.

A duathlete who was taken to hospital with inflammation of the brain so severe he said it felt like there was “an alien trying to get out” of his head has shared what it was like to receive his rare ...

A duathlete who was rushed to hospital with brain inflammation so severe he described it as feeling like there was "an alien trying to get out" of his head has opened up about what it was like to ...

Scientists are now developing spinning space stations with artificial gravity that could take astronauts deeper into the Solar System in the 2030s, reshaping how long humans can stay in space and how ...