Science fiction stories about “alien” invaders are often political allegories for anxieties around immigration. Now, a ...

Machine learning is quietly rewriting the rules of the cosmic hunt for company. Instead of waiting to recognize familiar fingerprints of biology, researchers are training algorithms to spot the deeper ...

Is intelligent alien life really out there? With powerful telescopes identifying more potentially habitable planets each year, the possibility continues to grow. But what would happen if we actually ...

Well, well, well. CIA has been accused of gaining secret backdoor access to DNA databases from 23andMe and Ancestry.com to search for individuals with ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...