Those who spend more time with chatbots tend to be even lonelier, said MIT Media Lab research.What happens when we start turning to machines for the comfort we once found in people?A growing body

CHICAGO, IL In an astonishing miracle that theologians said was a herald of God's blessing upon Chicago's own Pope Leo XIV, an image of the Virgin Mary appeared in the Chicago Bean."Look, the face

More than a dozen Republican-led states are backing a Maine lawmaker who is censured after posting the first name and photo of a transgender athlete on social media. The state representative, Laurel Libby,

Nothing screams 'man of the people' like taking private planes to stops on your 'fight the oligarchy' tour, but that's exactly what Bernie Sanders is doing. Like the good socialist he is, Bernie claims

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. That truism, now known as the "Sagan standard" after science communication Carl Sagan, has been around in some form since David Hume first published it in the 1740s. But, with modern-day data collection, sometimes even extraordinary evidence isn't enough - it's how you interpret it. That's the argument behind a new pre-print paper by Luis Welbanks and their colleagues at Arizona State University and various other American institutions. They analyzed the data behind the recent claims of biosignature detection in the atmosphere of K2-18b and found that other non-biological interpretations could also explain the data.

Most astronomers agree that life is likely common throughout the Universe. While Earth is the only world known to have life, we know that life arose early on our world, and the building blocks of life, including amino acids and sugars, form readily. We also know there are countless worlds in the cosmos that might be home for life. But just because life is likely, that doesn't mean proving it will be easy. Many of the biosignatures we can observe can also have abiotic origins. So how can we be sure? One way is to compare our observations of a habitable world with other worlds in the system.

We tend to think of habitability in terms of individual planets and their potential to host life. But barring outliers like rogue planets with internal heating or icy moons with subsurface oceans created by tidal heating, it's exoplanet/star relationships that generate habitability, not individual planets. New research emphasizes that fact.

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