A former senior analyst for The Bank of England warned the bank to prepare for alien contact, citing the United States' ...

Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

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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 Living Worlds Working Group proposes a revolutionary approach to finding life on distant planets. The paper, part of the ...

There is currently no proof that the universe is home to other intelligent life forms aside from the ones that inhabit Earth, and evidence to the contrary ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

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 ...