Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

"Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant" is a radically honest discussion of bodily autonomy. Read our review out of its Sundance 2026 ...

How large is a large language model? Think about it this way. In the center of San Francisco there’s a hill called Twin Peaks from which you can view nearly the entire city. Picture all of it—every ...

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 ...

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a technosignature. Reading time 3 minutes From the moment astronomers discovered ...

"We all would have been thrilled to find technosignatures coming from 3I/ATLAS, but they're just not there." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Could these be signs of artificial 3I-ntelligence? With 3I/ATLAS streaking away from our planet, speculation remains as to whether the interstellar comet is alien or not. NASA has staunchly maintained ...

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

Welcome to Crosstalk, wherein A.V. Club writers discuss their varied (or unvaried, as the case may be) perspectives on a pop-culture topic. This time, William Hughes and Jacob Oller try to square ...

For almost the entire time that Sega was in the console business, they were trying to make the internet work for them. A search for some kind of advantage over the competition combined with a desire ...