Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
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As scientists search for evidence of life on other worlds in our solar system and beyond, they’re starting to ask how to define life in the first place.
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Tales of long-lost ancient civilizations are nothing new. What is new, is scientists asking how to find such societies on our world and those orbiting other stars…
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According to numerous pop sci outlets, the Wow! Signal is a comet in a strange orbit around the sun. But according to experts, this explanation just doesn't fit the relevant data…
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If there was a thriving alien civilization on one of the best candidates for life in our stellar neighborhood, we missed them by well over a billion years...
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Just because we're very unlikely to hear from aliens doesn't mean we shouldn't at least try to listen.
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Oddly, this is a case when a few signals would make a better case for alien contact than hundreds.
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Could an alien civilization set up a way to communicate with us more visually than just sending a laser or microwave broadcast?
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Based on the premise of SETI, if we do start talking to aliens, the ensuing conversation could get awkward very quickly...
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Dr. Jill Tarter of SETI weighs in on the Wow! Signal for Weird Things.
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Could we have already been contacted by aliens and just don't know it yet?