Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in the journal Leonardo, our thought experiment lends weight to the idea that ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

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It is not the least of this world’s wonders that it’s been nearly half a century since Ellen Ripley, in the person of Sigourney Weaver, sent the Alien, in the person of a person in an Alien suit, ...

Humans should look to planetary alignments outside of the solar system when searching for signatures of extraterrestrial communications, scientists say. The nascent search for radio transmissions from ...

Humans have created countless inventions that shape our lives in amazing ways. Some are practical, some are revolutionary, and some are simply fascinating. But if aliens suddenly appeared, which ...

No one goes to a Yorgos Lanthimos movie to see something quote-unquote “normal.” Discerning viewers flock to the Greek filmmaker’s parables about family dynamics and power struggles to marinate in his ...