We have joined a game which has been going on before our arrival, and the strategy that everyone has learned is to hide.
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The technology of an advanced alien civilization is likely to produce many signs that could be detected across the vastness of space. Two astronomers explain the search for technosignatures.
Even if aliens exist, are intelligent like humans and interested in making contact with us, what are the chances they’ll be close enough for us to hear them screaming their presence into the cosmos?
Realising the silence of outer space was what made us appreciate our precarious position down on this pale blue dot – so beginning our obsession with extinction.
About 5 percent of all UFO sightings cannot be easily explained by weather or human technology. A physicist argues that there’s compelling evidence to justify serious scientific study and that the skeptics should step aside – for the sake of humanity.
In 1954, three scientists observed a paradox to which they gave their name: the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam recurrence. Now, fibre optics are on the way to finally providing an explanation.
Churchill allowed science to flourish. Without a similar attitude in today’s politics, we may hit a bottleneck for life that leaves a Universe without a single human soul to enjoy it.
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Chercheur au Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules, Université de Lille
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Associate Professor, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
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Associate Professor of Physics, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Professor of Optics, University of Ferrara
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Professeur au Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers Atomes et Molécules (PHLAM), CNRS UMR8523, IRCICA, Université de Lille
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Senior Instrument Scientist, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
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Co-Director Space Technology and Industry Institute, Swinburne University of Technology
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Ph.D. Candidate in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State
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Visiting Researcher,, University of Oxford
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Professor and Director of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology, UNSW Sydney
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Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State
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Research Fellow in the Philosophy of Ethics, King's College London
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor (Radio Astronomy), Curtin University
