A web of EEG electrodes covered Anton Bilton’s scalp like a jeweled headdress. The machine would map his brain activity while the potent psychedelic dimethyltryptamine, commonly known as DMT, coursed ...

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the universe in a completely different way than we do. Physicist Daniel Whiteson exp ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That observation, attributed to ...

The UFO Watchtower in Center, Colorado, is exactly that kind of place, a delightfully bizarre roadside attraction that takes ...

From pagan folk to noise experiments and cosmic prog, these 15 albums defy convention: rock’s strangest, boldest, most unrepeatable visions ...

New research reveals that elephant trunk whiskers are unlike any other animal's, and could inspire a new generation of robots.

Since the first Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) experiment in 1960, scientists have been scanning the Milky Way for signs of advanced alien civilizations. They have looked for unusual ...

A House oversight hearing this week put unidentified aerial phenomena back at the center of a familiar clash between Congress ...

Pennsylvania has over 500,000 vacant homes, representing nearly 10% of its housing stock. Adaptive reuse of existing buildings is proposed as a cost-effective solution to housing shortages and blight.

Elon Musk had some bizarre things to say at a recent xAI meeting. Credit: Hakan Nural/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images And in an unusual move, xAI posted the entire 45-minute meeting online. The most ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...