Not all fat is bad for you and some extra weight around your stomach could play a vital role in fighting infections and inflammation, a study has suggested. But researchers at the Karolinska Institute ...

Scientists say bees may hold the key to Alien Communication through Maths. (Image: Canva) Bees show basic math skills, aiding research on universal alien communication. Scientists use bees to test if ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Studying how honeybees process information may help humans communicate with aliens, according to a new thought experiment. Although the ancestors of honeybees and humans diverged in evolution more ...

Scarlett Howard currently has funding from the Australian Research Council and the Hermon Slade Foundation. Adrian Dyer receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Alexander von ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

More than any other Trek outing, Star Trek: The Original Series is a straight-up fever dream. Between the ancient aliens, missing brains, and the occasional godlike being, there are times when it ...

LOOK AROUND the world of artificial intelligence and OpenAI is everywhere. In early September ChatGPT’s creator reportedly struck a deal to buy perhaps $10bn-worth of custom AI chips from Broadcom. A ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - If you thought virtual reality was just for gaming think again. a mysterious truck has rolled onto the campus of South Alabama and it promises to take students on an involuntary ...

Picture, if you will, a monster so powerful and so unpredictable that everyone around him lives in a constant state of fear. Oh, I should mention: This monster is a young man. He’s also a genius and a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Part of what made the xenomorphs so scary in the original Alien and its sequels was that nobody really knew what the xenomorphs ...