Gravitational SETIOne of the most exciting breakthroughs in astronomy over the past decade was the detection of gravitational waves. Since the days of…6h ago15036h ago1503
Council on Alien RelationsDuring a recent forum of the Council on Foreign Relations, I described the need to further our relations with other residents in our cosmic…1d ago18331d ago1833
Harvard’s Perfect StormDuring yesterday’s meeting of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), some of my Harvard colleagues argued that antisemitism does not…3d ago16493d ago1649
Sailing on the Surface of a Red Dwarf StarThe most common stars in the Milky-Way galaxy are red dwarfs. They possess about a tenth of the mass of the Sun and extend to about a tenth…4d ago5834d ago583
Superhuman AI is Closer Than We Think, for the Wrong Reason!A couple of weeks ago, Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis forecasted that artificial intelligence (AI) will match human intelligence within the…6d ago576276d ago57627
Nature Cannot Be Ruled in the Court of Public OpinionPhysics aims to figure out the rules that govern the reality we all share. Once inferred, the laws of physics cannot be broken. A specific…Mar 2927114Mar 2927114
The Highest-Energy Particles in the CosmosThe highest energy particles are so rare and special that they receive a name. In 1991, the most energetic particle ever detected, with an…Mar 263706Mar 263706
Q&A About Alien IntelligenceBelow is a set of questions that I had received today from Maximiliano Fernández, a journalist for Infobae, the most read Spanish-speaking…Mar 2542816Mar 2542816
What Are Aliens Having for Lunch?In his book titled “Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won’t Teach You at Business School,” the visionary Richard Branson wrote: “The brave may…Mar 242699Mar 242699
What is Dark Energy?The standard cosmological model is simple. The expanding Universe has the total mass density corresponding to a nearly flat geometry and…Mar 233258Mar 233258
