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

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Science fiction often shows aliens with human features like eyes, limbs, and faces. But science has a reason for questioning this idea. Through convergent evolution, similar environments and physical ...

This is FRESH AIR. Noah Hawley has created successful, well-received television adaptations of the Coen brothers' movie "Fargo" - five seasons to date and counting - and of the Marvel comic book ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...