A century ago, from December 18-31 of 1925, the 14th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union—the first congress following Vladimir Lenin’s death—endorsed the policy known as “Socialism in ...

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures?

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Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.