Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

“I have no clue if there are aliens out there,” concedes Douglas Vakoch, director of METI International, an organization committed to contacting extraterrestrial intelligence. But he is certain that ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...