A provocative theory circulating among artificial intelligence researchers suggests that once machines achieve human-level intelligence and beyond, they might create something entirely unexpected: a ...

For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could they hear us? A new study combining data from Penn State and NASA’s Jet ...

A recent theory proposed by a NASA scientist suggests that extraterrestrial civilizations may not possess the wildly advanced technology that many UFO enthusiasts expect. This perspective, which ...

In his classic science fiction novel Contact, Carl Sagan remarked, “The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.” Physicist Enrico Fermi is credited with ...

Will artificial intelligence ever be able to reason, learn, and solve problems at levels comparable to humans? Experts at the University of California San Diego believe the answer is yes—and that such ...

A new study suggests a novel approach in the long-running scientific endeavor to find intelligent life beyond Earth. Instead of casting a wide, speculative net across the cosmos, researchers from Penn ...

That is where Anonymous Chicken keeps tripping up. A species that uses touch or echolocation as its primary sense and has manipulative appendages could potentially develop a technological civilization ...

The latest novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Shroud, examines the question of whether, faced with an alien intelligence, we would actually perceive it as intelligent. That and whether the aliens would ...

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