The White House goes all in on aliens with new UAP Science Advisory Council

If the truth is out there, the White House has a new scientific advisory group working on finding it. Called the UAP Science ...
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Science fiction vs. science fact: Alien life might be just as strange as Project Hail Mary makes it out to be

"Project Hail Mary" really pushes the limit when it comes to non-humanoid aliens. But researchers posit that real aliens ...

Alien first contact: how the new rules differ from science fiction

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...

Aliens Probably Have Consciousness

And if aliens made of different stuff potentially possess consciousness, then why not minds made of silicon, metal, and ...
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Earth Plants Can Grow On These Alien Worlds, A New Simulation Study Suggests

Earth plants could thrive under the light of an alien sun, according to a recent experiment. A team of astrobiologists planted garden cress seeds and cultured dishes of photosynthetic bacteria under ...
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Something in space is changing alien signals before they can reach Earth, new paper claims

New research suggests that alien radio signals may be transformed by plasma from their home stars — and scientists on Earth ...

What would an alien diet look like?

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer ...
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Identifying the Alien: Science Fiction Meets Its Other

Nicola Griffith and Stephel Pagel, eds. Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction. Overlook Press (212-965-8407), 1998. 375 pp. $26.95 hc. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick begins her Epistemology of the Closet ...