“It’s about being able to step back and look at your result. Does it make sense?” says Stefan Funk, a particle physicist who ...

Fermi’s Paradox, posed in the context of alien life, now applies online as well. Trolls have pushed many of us to stay off ...

Elon Musk’s Fork in the Road isn’t just a sculpture—it’s a monument to the tech world’s obsession with civilizational ...

Is there some evidence suggesting that humans are the Galaxy’s only intelligent species? Enrico Fermi thought so – and he was a pretty smart guy. Could he be right? In 1950, the famous physicist made ...

Even though humans have pondered the moon since the first of us looked skyward, there is still much we don't know about it.

During the summer of 1950, physicist Enrico Fermi posed a question to his colleagues over lunch, "Don't you ever wonder where everybody is?" Fermi was referring to alien life. In the 4.4 billion ...

Today, the Doomsday Clock was set to 89 seconds to midnight, signaling that experts fear we are dangerously close to a global ...

This is referred to as the Fermi Paradox, as suggested in 1950 by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi. The Drake Equation, say the researchers, assumes that an intelligent civilization ...