After two decades of fascination, imitation and debate, an international team of longevity scientists says it has reached a formal scientific definition for a “blue zones” region — establishing a ...

A new study proposes detecting life in space by spotting patterns across many planets instead of focusing on one at a time.

A single alien world can be misleading. A strange gas in an atmosphere might look promising, then turn out to come from ...

A research team has developed a new approach to detecting life beyond Earth that does not rely on identifying specific ...

Hidden beneath the waves, massive coral colonies are being discovered through a global citizen science project, racing ...

Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project”: that’s the headline from reports on the latest ...

Some of the ocean’s fastest and most fearsome predators—like great white sharks and tuna—are running hotter than expected, and it’s costing them dearly. New research shows these warm-bodied fish burn ...

There's lore about chickens surviving from seconds to months after their heads are chopped off, but what does the science say ...

The Artemis II menu focuses on comfort and experience, contrasting heavily with 1980’s NASA meals. By asking how to make ...

While real dogs still have a major leg up over robots, the machines are catching up. Popular Science previously highlighted a ...

Researchers from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) and National Institute for Basic Biology have developed a new method ...

The Frontier supercomputer at ORNL is the first to achieve the level of computing performance known as exascale, a threshold ...