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(cokada/iStock/Getty Images) Alien megastructures built to harvest stellar energy or alter the orbits of stars may be ...

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If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago. Before this boundary—the start of the famous Cambrian explosion—multicelled ...

If the government confirms nonhuman intelligence, psychological research offers clues about the range of ways humans might ...

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Fia Backström's Queens Museum exhibition replaces beauty and complexity with a visual and narrative language that reduces the ...