Life Like is a thought-provoking 2019 thriller sci-fi film. The story follows a young couple, James and Sophie who inherit a luxurious, high-tech home. Seeking to make their lives easier, they acquire ...

Students by the hundreds were streaming through Sather Gate on a brilliant morning last week at UC Berkeley, en route to class, or the library, or the familiar comforts of the Free Speech Café. It was ...

You don’t have to leave Earth to appreciate being alive. There are simple ways to cherish each day. By Jancee Dunn Mike Massimino used to complain about the weather when he was growing up outside New ...

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability An ...

If you know anything about the experiences of animals reared in captivity for food, fur or human amusement, you might imagine that the lives of wild animals are idyllic. If nature is conceived as a ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...

What is life? Like most great questions, this one is easy to ask but difficult to answer. Scientists have been trying for centuries, and philosophers have done so for millennia. Today our knowledge is ...