This has sparked considerable interest among obsessives, even as many have dismissed the releases as a desperate distraction from the President’s growing political difficulties. It’s certainly worth ...

The Microsoft cofounder warned the next five years are critical for setting up guardrails to rein in the potential harms of AI.

In June 2026, numerous Chinese news media outlets reported on updated international guidelines advising researchers not to independently respond to extraterrestrial signals. English-language news ...

This was the theory of “contact as symbol” proposed by sociologist Bill Mathers of RAND Corporation in his book, The 100,000-Light-Year Iron Curtain: SETI Sociology. Mathers believed that contact with ...

To discover whether or not we’re truly alone in the universe, China has built the world’s largest, most powerful, and potentially most expensive single-aperture radio telescope, the BBC reports. The ...

China is home to one of the world's largest radio telescopes. It is 500 meters in diameter. A reflector larger than the ...