In 1976, Richard Dawkins published a book titled after an idea he’d come up with while teaching a lecture on animal behaviour for his PhD supervisor. It just so happened that the idea of The Selfish ...

Data (Brent Spiner) talking to Tasha Yar (Denise Crosby) in Star Trek: The Next Generation - Paramount There are so many legendary members of Starfleet who have contributed to the "Star Trek" legacy.

New research suggests that a single gene may play an outsize role in developing Alzheimer's, which suggests gene therapy for the condition could reach many people. When you purchase through links on ...

Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to why. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

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Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Elon Musk discussed his views on whether aliens exist during a discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, ...

In 2018, a nervous-looking He Jiankui took the stage at a scientific conference in Hong Kong. A hush settled over the packed auditorium as the soft-spoken Chinese scientist adjusted his microphone and ...

Octopuses break so many biological expectations that scientists still struggle to explain how they ended up this way through normal evolution. From how their brains work to how their bodies heal, ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy ...

It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves ...

Scientists studying thousands of rats discovered that gut bacteria are shaped by both personal genetics and the genetics of social partners. Some genes promote certain microbes that can spread between ...