When we imagine alien life, we picture monsters, insects, or tentacles—but what if the most realistic aliens are human-like? Evolution tends to solve the same problems with similar designs, and ...

Those who use their bodies to survey the boundaries.

The curious minds at What If explore what would happen if dinosaurs never went extinct and changed human evolution, imagining a world dominated by megafauna.

The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...

Electronic order in quantum materials often emerges not uniformly, but through subtle and complex patterns that vary from ...

The capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by United States special operations forces in January 2026 represents a ...

Erich von Däniken, who has died aged 90, was among the first writers to suggest that human civilisation, and even human ...

For organisations looking to 2026, the core challenge isn't about finding new technology, but deploying available tools to ...

Here, the key to understanding the brain is not in the error, but the process of correcting the error. Similarly, in his book To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, the ...

It's think-or-swim time. AI may be our greatest evolutionary challenge since we came down from the trees. Meeting it requires ...

Currently, the most pressing challenge confronting global politics is not caused primarily by technology or market forces.

In infancy and childhood is laid the groundwork for an integrated personality in the making, in preparation for adaptation to the outside world. The malleability of the nervous system [neuroplasticity ...