Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...

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If we could travel at 10 percent of the speed of light, we’d cross the Milky Way Galaxy in one million years. Presumably, an advanced alien civilization could be doing this already, zooming through ...

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Intelligent life may be common, but civilizations choose not to expand rapidly. Cultural evolution, not just biology, guides civilizations' choices. Expansion risks self-destruction through conflict ...

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Astronomers made headlines last week by suggesting potential signs of life on the distant exoplanet K2-18b—but is this truly our first glimpse of extraterrestrial beings, or simply wishful thinking?

(via PBS Space Time) Around 2 billion years ago, life had plateaued in complexity, ruined the atmosphere, and was on the verge of self-annihilation. But then something strange and potentially ...

It was a simple question asked over lunch in 1950. Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped usher in the atomic age, was dining with colleagues at Los Alamos, New Mexico, when the ...

Where is everybody? The great physicist Enrico Fermi first posed the challenging question over half a century ago, wondering why we appear to be alone in the universe. Perhaps the most straightforward ...

In the summer of 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi and some colleagues at the Los Alamos Lab in New Mexico were walking to lunch, and casually discussing flying saucers - as you do - when Fermi blurted ...