Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does ...

Scarlett Howard currently has funding from the Australian Research Council and the Hermon Slade Foundation. Adrian Dyer receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Alexander von ...

Bees may hold the secret to communication with aliens, scientists find - Honeybees can solve simple addition and subtraction ...

It has been discovered that bumblebees have achieved the ability to discriminate between different light signals, something previously thought to be only possible in vertebrates. This raises the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

Dell’s Alienware laptops tend to be high-performance notebooks with designs that unmistakably scream “this is a gaming laptop.” But rival PC makers like Asus, Razer, and Acer have been demonstrating ...

A spacecraft en route to Jupiter has captured unprecedented ultraviolet images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, providing scientists with new clues to the composition of the most ancient traveler ...

If humans ever receive a message from intelligent aliens, the biggest challenge may not ...