The recent visit to our solar system by the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has sparked speculation about whether it’s another ...

Physicist Enrico Fermi is credited with saying after a pointless search, “Where is everybody?” which remains the bane of any ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

Wu designed and executed an experiment that questioned — and then disproved — the infallibility of parity. After freezing a ...

Machine learning is quietly rewriting the rules of the cosmic hunt for company. Instead of waiting to recognize familiar ...

Do Aliens Speak Physics?: And Other Questions about Science and the Nature of Reality (Whiteson & Warner, 2025) is a mind-bending exploration into what it would mean, scientifically and ...