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Astrophysicist Avi Loeb is on a mission to prove aliens exist. His peers say he's chasing sensationalism. He reflects on his status as an academic pariah and whether controversial ideas can ...

Is there anybody out there? Are we really alone in the universe, or are aliens just patiently waiting for us to become advanced enough to be worth speaking to? There are so many mysteries about ...

Multiple micro-burrow bands in an outcrop with various degrees of weathering. Credit: Cees W. Passchier et al. / CC BY 4.0 Scientists have discovered mysterious microscopic tunnels in marble and ...

“Assisted suicide is a false charity” with alarming consequences that must be rejected, said Bishop David Malloy of Rockford, Illinois, in a pastoral letter in response to the possibility that ...

Tom is a writer in London with a Master's degree in Journalism whose editorial work covers anything from health and the environment to technology and archaeology. Laura is an editor and staff ...

British scientists claim to have found alien organisms in Earth s atmosphere,suggesting that life is continually arriving to our planet from space and did not originate here. The Progressive ...

Marble sample from Namibia: Starting from two crevices filled with light-colored crustal limestone, the tubes have grown downwards in a parallel arrangement. Credit: Cees Passchier Professor Cees ...

White dwarfs may be stellar corpses, but that doesn't mean that everything around them has to be lifeless. That's the conclusion of Florida Institute of Technology researcher Caldon Whyte, who's ...

ITV Tyne Tees and Border Political Correspondent Tom Sheldrick discusses welfare cuts, the latest on assisted dying and how to make our towns and cities healthier with Luke Myer MP (Lab), Baroness ...

We don’t even need to look elsewhere, as there are quite a few species on Earth with very long lifespans. The oldest living individual land animal is a Seychelles tortoise, with an estimated age ...

Scientists have discovered a new form of water called "plastic ice VII" that exists under extreme pressures and temperatures, significantly different from typical water states. This discovery ...