The way we speak about time tends to strongly imply that the passage of time is some sort of real process that happens out ...

Artificial intelligence is learning without understanding meaning. A global data revolution has stripped away essential ...

Commentary: We're heading into a world saturated with AI. With automation everywhere, I wonder what will become our primary source of identity, purpose and meaning.

Ars Technica: The Voyager Golden Record is perhaps the best known example of humans attempting to communicate with an alien species, spearheaded by the late Carl Sagan, among others. But what are the ...

A trillionaire in the next few years would surpass the GDP of most nations, with visual analogies showing how vast a trillion ...

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find aliens.

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly artificial neural networks, have proved to be highly promising tools for ...

What if the bridge between our worlds isn’t language at all, but physics? In a recent episode of SETI Live, theoretical physicist Dr. Daniel Whiteson, co-author of Do Aliens Speak Physics?: And Other ...

Some politicians may want to pretend that climate change isn’t happening. But the costs of not acting are only going to keep ...

The search for quantum gravity is the next big step in physics, as researchers seek to unify the physics of the very small ...

Scientists from around the world are at Brown to discuss what is known, and what needs to be learned, about the long-sought particle discovered a decade ago.