Researchers point to social, financial and geographical barriers, and believe a big cultural shift is needed for anything to ...

The lack of athletes of color at the Winter Olympics — and in winter sports in general — has been a recurring theme in the ...

Deep in the Atlantic Ocean, far from any coastline and out of reach of sunlight, scientists have mapped a sprawling undersea ...

As the use of generative AI becomes increasingly common, we must beware of an algorithmic colonization of language and ...

Astrobiology Club at the University seeks to break down misconceptions of alien life and create a space for scientific discussions.

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

Carole Haswell receives funding from STFC. We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of these is whether Earth is the ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does intelligent life look like? And how would aliens communicate? How could ...