Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got ...

Why do we tend to assume that UFOs are crafts carrying alien beings rather than alien beings themselves? How the UFO ...

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Ever since comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered, it's been one of the major talking points throughout the space science community. The interstellar comet formed in a distant region of our Galaxy about 10 ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

The spectrum of alien appearances across popular culture is vast, limited only by human imagination. From the sharp, angular features of Captain Spock to the dinosaur-like neck and big, expressive ...

During comet 3I/ATLAS's closest approach to Earth, the Breakthrough Listen project attempted to search the interstellar visitor for signs of technosignatures, or signs of alien beings sending ...

On November 28, 1967, astronomy graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell at Cambridge spotted a tiny repeating mark on miles of radio data. That odd signal turned out to be from the first known pulsar, ...

Synapses are highly organized but are also highly diverse in their organization and properties to allow for optimizing the computing power of brain circuits. Along these lines, voltage-gated calcium ...

Sara Rigby: Hello and welcome to the Science Focus Podcast. I'm Sara Rigby, online assistant at BBC Science Focus magazine. In this week's episode, I'm talking to Dr Douglas Vakoch, president of ...

This track was Bridgers’ first brush with Bright Eyes frontman and emo lord Conor Oberst, and it’s hard not to have a soft spot for it. The contrast of their voices is particularly heightened here as ...

is a postdoctoral research fellow in applied moral philosophy at The University of Oxford, and a Wellcome Trust research fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre For Practical Ethics. In 1963, a ...