Is artificial intelligence flight ready?

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got stranded on earth when his alien compadres abandoned their botany mission. In ...

For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” who look suspiciously like us in rubber suits. The scientists who actually ...

The sci-fi movie “Disclosure Day” predicts that our reaction to intelligent alien life will be chaotic. But what does the ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...

reports of alien abductions and recovered memory syndrome or studies that don't reach traditional levels of significance. But neither controversial phenomena nor potentially illuminating but ...

A lot of folks, human and otherwise, seem very interested in getting their hands on the newly crash-landed alien specimens. What could go wrong? By Sean T. Collins The “Alien” franchise explores two ...

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