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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers don’t search for life by seeing planets directly — they read the light that passes through their atmospheres. When a distant planet crosses in front of its star, some of that starlight ...

So if we’re right, each former human is now essentially a radio transmitter and receiver. One plurb sends out a signal that ...

Scientists are learning to engineer light in rich, multidimensional ways that dramatically increase how much information a single photon can carry. This leap could make quantum communication more ...

Tiny, artificial earthquake-like waves generated by lasers may be the key to smaller, faster, and more efficient computer ...

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Researchers have built a new platform that produces ultrashort UV-C laser pulses and detects them at room temperature using atom-thin materials. The light flashes last just femtoseconds and can be ...

We rank the best Wii games of all time. From Super Mario Galaxy and Wii Sports to Twilight Princess, Xenoblade Chronicles, ...