If the world exploded, what proportion of the rocks floating in space would have evidence of life? (continued) ...

Fossils from China's Chengjiang beds reveal that early vertebrate ancestors, jawless fish called myllokunmingids, possessed ...

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

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If life exists elsewhere in the universe, researchers at the University of Washington are finding the clues on Earth to help ...

If life ever existed on Mars, it might have looked like microfossils right here on Earth.

While idea may violate Occam’s razor, “it remains a speculative but logically open alternative,” says biologist Robert Endres.

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and others have long promised to govern themselves responsibly. Now, in the absence of rules, there's not a lot to protect them.

CCTV captured a heat lamp falling into a tortoise enclosure, sparking a fire that forced three‑year‑old Leo to flee.

This stone path appears during low tide at Jebudo Island, South Korea. The narrow walkway connects small rocky islets surrounded by shallow turquoise water. This video shows how the tidal road works ...

All in all, this hasn’t been a bad week for America, and so this edition of the 5QT ought to be taken in the positive spirit in which it’s intended. As in, your author is positive that things ought to ...