In the following six books, each writer looks to space to skillfully explore what it means to live on Earth. Salvation and ...

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With automated proof-checkers, a problem can be broken up into small chunks, solved bit-by-bit, then reassembled with ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed from other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. In the story, these ...

Some of the smartest people on the planet — Nobel Prize winners, theoretical physicists, Silicon Valley billionaires — genuinely believe there's a real chance we're living inside a computer simulation ...

One tool that a therapist can use to help alleviate patients’ suffering is to guide them to see situations from new perspectives. Obviously, this intervention does not apply in all cases, but with ...

There might be many more planets that could be home to aliens than we thought, according to a new study. For years, scientists have searched for life in the “habitable” or “goldilocks” zone – where it ...

If a genuine extraterrestrial signal ever arrives, the hard part may not be detecting it, but understanding what it means. That is the central idea behind a NASA History Series book that explores how ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the Universe. If not, what does intelligent life look like? And how would aliens communicate? How could ...

(via TEDEd) In 1980, philosopher John Searle developed a thought experiment in response to AI advancement at the time. His aim was to interrogate whether a programmed computer has cognitive states, ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...