These are rare, special families of genes that duplicated themselves before our last common ancestor ever existed. Here is ...

Breaking down the real reason behind Oliver’s changing appearance in Invincible, including alien biology, genetics, and story ...

After the success of James Cameron’s “Aliens” in the summer of 1986, Dark Horse Comics’s expanded universe continued time and again to forge new pathways for the terrifying extraterrestrial Xenomorph ...

Octopuses break so many biological expectations that scientists still struggle to explain how they ended up this way through normal evolution. From how their brains work to how their bodies heal, ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

Scientists studying thousands of rats discovered that gut bacteria are shaped by both personal genetics and the genetics of social partners. Some genes promote certain microbes that can spread between ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

There is no cure for the rare disease Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP), but researchers from Drexel University’s College of Medicine and the UMass Chan Medical School have achieved ...

Cephalopods don’t just look alien—they evolved like nothing else on Earth. The SRT describes how octopuses have three hearts, blue copper-based blood, and a massive nervous system where three-fifths ...

DC Comics was able to bring maturity to superheroes in a way that no on ever would have expected. For years, the company was known for their more fantastical superhero stories, but all of that changed ...