Psychology Today

Do We Think of UFOs as Crafts or Beings, and Why Does It Matter?

Why do we tend to assume that UFOs are crafts carrying alien beings rather than alien beings themselves? How the UFO ...

Anthropic Releases Paper About Claude’s Mental ‘Workspace.’ Don’t Read It Uncritically

A new research paper from Anthropic hypothesizes that there’s an internal “workspace” within the operations of the Claude LLM ...
The Hechinger Report

Faster solutions, lower test scores: How AI is eroding math skills

Many students appear to be completing assignments faster while learning less from them. This conclusion comes from one of the largest studies of how generative AI is changing student behavior and ...

Adults Are Sharing Their Brutally Honest Theories About What Happens After Death

There is an age-old question that humans have been asking forever: What happens when we die? The beautiful (and sometimes ...
HUB

For Media

Tapping into the power of collaboration, Johns Hopkins University and West Virginia University are launching a new partnership to bring together researchers from both institutions to address complex ...
The Forward

In ‘Disclosure Day,’ Steven Spielberg finds himself at odds with Jewish thought about aliens

Steven Spielberg is in his aliens exist era — but in truth, he’s been there since at least 1977. That’s when the director said NASA sent him a 20-page letter objecting to the release of Close ...
The New York Times

Do Aliens Exist? Steven Spielberg Believes They Do

The legendary director on why he thinks aliens are real, and why he makes movies about things that scare him. Hosted by Rachel Abrams The legendary director on why he thinks aliens are real, and why ...
Quanta Magazine

How Terry Tao Became an Evangelist for AI in Math

With automated proof-checkers, a problem can be broken up into small chunks, solved bit-by-bit, then reassembled with confidence that every piece is correct. For some, this heralds a new area in ...
Astronomy

The search for aliens levels up

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 ...
Yahoo

Alien civilizations have not visited Earth and never will, physicist claims

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Distance, light speed, biology, and time may explain why alien civilizations never meet. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) "There ...
Futurism

This Is How Big a Telescope Aliens Would Need to See Dinosaurs on Earth

Roughly 66 million years ago, scientists believe an enormous meteor, dubbed Chicxulub, smashed into the Earth in an extinction-level event that wiped out 75 percent of life, including the vast ...
Scientific American

Could aliens in another galaxy see dinosaurs on Earth?

In last week’s The Universe column, I fielded a reader’s question about galaxy collisions in an expanding universe. The answer deals with vast distances, inscrutable forces and the ultimate fate of ...