Two Burlington women have been sentenced to life in prison with no parole for 25 years for the first-degree murder of their ...

A thoughtful look at whether empathy is fading in modern life.

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

Some frogs have evolved features so strange that scientists struggle to explain them, and a few look less like amphibians ...

No Man's Sky is setting players up for an action-packed summer as its latest update, The Swarm, introduces a dangerous alien ...

The small alien bus driver character in DC's Supergirl film has a very distinct voice. Here's who plays that character and ...

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about where you live than about what consciousness really requires.

The Pope Lick Monster deserves special mention because it’s one of Kentucky’s most unique cryptids. This creature, said to ...

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 ...

Scientists propose building a lab on the moon to screen Mars and other space samples for alien microbes before they ever ...