Space-traveling microbes? An unusual experiment shocked skeptics.

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...

Inside the Government’s Cold War Program That Tested Psychic Abilities

Beginning in the 1970s, U.S. government intelligence agencies investigated the existence of ‘remote viewing.’ Those files are now declassified.
Vulture

‘We Are Not Alone on Earth,’ Warns Steven Spielberg

You kind of knew that Steven Spielberg believes in aliens. But did you know know? In your heart of hearts? The man behind E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and War of the Worlds is leaving no ...

A Scientist Locked Herself in a Pitch-Black Cave for 5 Days, Revealing New Clues about Human Consciousness

A slew of biosensors recorded surprising changes in her brain and body that suggest sensory deprivation can reveal more about “the world within you.” ...

Aliens From the Fourth Dimension May Be Invading Our World—And We Don’t Even Know It

Theoretically, it’s impossible for us to perceive a 4D creature. That is, unless it broke into our three-dimensional reality.
New Scientist

A unicellular organism with no brain is capable of Pavlovian learning

Much more difficult is learning to connect different types of stimuli or events, and predicting that one is linked to another. Such associative learning was most famously demonstrated when Ivan Pavlov ...
The Debrief

Could Messages from Extraterrestrials “Slip Below Our Detection Thresholds”? A New Study Explains Why We’re Missing Alien Signals

SETI researchers may have missed alien signals due to a cosmic phenomenon that distorts narrowband radio waves, new research ...