Radio telescopes have long scanned quiet patches of sky for a lone, artificial-sounding ping, but a growing body of research ...

An AI program built to write police reports went wildly off script after it claimed a Utah officer had transformed into a ...

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A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the ...

Radio signals have been travelling through space since 1906, forming Earth’s radio bubble. Now 119 light years wide, it covers about 75 star systems, the signals fading into noise ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, yet a growing group of researchers warns that such a moment might arrive not ...

The accusations began early, then the delay in the release, and the announcement that there was not an actual "list" was all it took for the media to rush to conclusions. Later in the year, we saw the ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

When we imagine contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, we tend to picture messages: radio signals, mathematical codes, or perhaps a universal language waiting to be discovered. But what if alien ...

Brothers Anton and James Peraire-Bueno. A crypto think tank warns that the trial may end up imposing “a novel and alien code of conduct” on Ethereum validators.” A version of this article appeared in ...

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find aliens. Reading time 6 minutes At Gizmodo, we love a good story about ...