Of the 11,000 people belonging to this Papuan community, around 200 died each year. One in every ten people in the tribe was ...

Lurking in the shadows of many ecosystems are animals whose main motivations are, quite literally, to hijack the bodies of ...

Why do we tend to assume that UFOs are crafts carrying alien beings rather than alien beings themselves? How the UFO ...

Until about 60,000 years ago, diminutive hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (affectionately nicknamed Hobbits for obvious reasons), shared the island of Flores with Komodo dragons, pygmy elephants, ...

This creature doesn’t think the way we do—because it doesn’t have just one brain. With 9 brains and 3 hearts, it can process ...

It's nearly always fatal, and it's showing up farther north than ever. Here's what to know before you swim this summer.

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.

Are you emotionally exhausted and easily triggered? Discover how the practice of “mental fasting” allows your brain to ...

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer them a somewhat risky buffet. There is liquid water, as well as salts, ...

Plus, Chris Elliott to hunt Bigfoot alongside stars of Resident Alien and The Doom Generation in "creature-filled adventure comedy." ...

Have you ever seen headlines during the summer about a brain-eating amoeba infection? While extremely rare, an infectious disease expert explains what it is. “Naegleria fowleri is a microscopic amoeba ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...