Science fiction often imagines alien civilizations so advanced they seem like gods, with powers that look supernatural to anyone beneath them. But this episode asks a darker and more fascinating ...
The Dark Forest Hypothesis offers one of the most unsettling answers to the Fermi Paradox. Maybe alien civilizations are ...
The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more ...
The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is continuing to have a disruptive impact on ever more parts of humanity. But what does it mean in the long run? A new paper, available as a preprint on arXiv from ...
A rare prehistoric cave, estimated to be around 300,000 years old, is a “time capsule,” sealed for hundreds of thousands of years. A research team from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), the ...
Books like Children of Time and Flowers for Algernon do an incredible job holding the audience's interest throughout their ...
A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...
What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...
The famous waterway began as two rivers, a new study suggests. Tectonic activity around five million years ago probably made ...