Astronauts of the future may be radically different from the rest of us in physiology and psychology. So, to what extent ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A new paper suggests that alien civilizations may communicate in ways that we do not currently ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

The depiction of humanity's 'first contact' with alien life has been the subject of countless sci-fi films and novels, but a new research paper argues that if we ever discover the existence of alien ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

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A series of century-scale droughts may have quietly reshaped one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. New climate reconstructions show that the Indus Valley Civilization endured repeated long ...