A COMPANY in the United States is offering insurance in the eventual case of an alien abduction – and the firm has just added ‘Area 51 Coverage’ in light of the Facebook event. Almost two million people have signed up…
A panoramic image shows the Milky Way, our home galaxy. Nineteen newly discovered dwarf galaxies seem to be missing their dark matter, and physicists aren’t sure why. The find dramatically increases the number of galaxies that appear to be missing…
Data from the Planck satellite reveals the cosmic microwave background. The shape of the universe is one of the most important questions in cosmology, with far-reaching implications, up to and including the ultimate fate of the cosmos. For decades, we’ve…
The model on the right shows water flow in northern Greenland in the presence of a valley extending under glacial ice. SAN FRANCISCO — Far below the frozen cover of the Greenland ice sheet sprawls miles of bedrock — and…
A cyborg may look conscious, but is it? Many advanced artificial intelligence projects say they are working toward building a conscious machine, based on the idea that brain functions merely encode and process multisensory information. The assumption goes, then, that…
The scientists on the expedition hope that two specialized arrays of metal detectors, towed by snowmobiles, will reveal iron meteorites from the early solar system just below the icy surface. Scientists are scouring the remote Antarctic ice cap for rare…