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

Elon Musk has turned a long-running joke about being an extraterrestrial into a central part of his public persona, even as ...

A former policy expert of the Bank of England told The Times of London that politicians and bankers can’t afford to dismiss ...

Recent discoveries and new research are forcing scientists to rethink what alien life might actually be like. Instead of ...

Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

After two decades of quiet data processing on millions of crowd-sourced home computers, the SETI@home project has narrowed ...

There is currently no proof that the universe is home to other intelligent life forms aside from the ones that inhabit Earth, and evidence to the contrary ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does intelligent life look like? And how would aliens communicate? How could ...

Scarlett Howard currently has funding from the Australian Research Council and the Hermon Slade Foundation. Adrian Dyer receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Alexander von ...