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 ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does intelligent life look like? And how would aliens communicate? Subscribe to ...

Alien, a startup looking to build trust infrastructure for the internet as the era of artificial intelligence agents changes how people interact with businesses and one another, today announced it has ...

Long before Artemis II captured our attention by taking humans farther from Earth than ever before, humans have been fascinated by the possibility of exploring other worlds, finding life on other ...

Well, please think about it. In your comm scenario, you have established some first principles, good for you. A few physical constants, a numerical system perhaps, great! That's basically taken you a ...

For generations, science fiction has imagined what life might look like on other worlds. Novelist H.G. Wells described nightmarish squid-like Martian invaders in The War of the Worlds, while the ...

137 (10001001)... that's all we need to tell them. Well, specifically, 1/137. That should tell them a lot about us and our knowledge. Edit: But it would tell them exactly nothing about the worldview ...