On Earth, life thrives in some of the most seemingly inhospitable environments. Single-celled organisms like bacteria teem in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park, where temperatures reach ...

Reports of U.S. citizens being stopped or even detained during recent immigration sweeps have renewed concerns about who ICE can question and what documentation people are expected to carry. An ...

When videos circulate showing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents confronting citizens, questions arise about the parameters of authority of federal law enforcement. With so much ...

Alabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants. Federal courts in the state are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment of people of Japanese descent during World ...

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 ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

A Maryland board of elections backed down in the face of legal threat from conservative groups and released unredacted voter registration records belonging to an illegal immigrant who served as the ...

U.S. Border Patrol agents have been deployed to Charlotte and Raleigh as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on illegal immigration. Agents have made more than 200 arrests in ...

The Drake Equation estimates roughly 10,000 intelligent alien civilizations in the Milky Way, yet no direct evidence of contact has been found. Petition Forcing Epstein Vote Succeeds Over White House ...

Niantic is giving its cute AR cartoon companions a voice that will let them guide you around in the real world and point out interesting facts. The feature is being demo’d first in Snap Spectacles.

A lawful permanent resident in Chicago was fined $130 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for not carrying his Green Card, a provision that was rarely enforced for decades. Rubén ...