A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

Real scientific efforts at universal communication have also involved mathematics and numbers. The covers of the Golden ...

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Scientists are studying bees’ surprising maths skills to explore whether numbers could be a universal language for ...

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 ...