Science Weekly podcast: Our Evolutionary Agony Aunt, and aliens
Carole Jahme, the Guardian’s evolutionary agony aunt who writes our weekly ‘Ask Carole column, joins us i…
Should We Be Really Sending Messages Into Space?
For 50 years now, astronomers and space enthusiasts have been listening for signals in the background noise of space that might point to another civilization, but some experts say numerous messages zipping through the cosmos could be confusing or simpl…
Should We Really Be Sending Messages Into Space?
For 50 years now, astronomers and space enthusiasts have been listening for signals in the background noise of space that might point to another civilization, but some experts say numerous messages zipping through the cosmos could be confusing or simpl…
Aliens can’t hear us, says astronomer
Fainter broadcasting signals and digital switchover mean Earth will soon be undetectable to extraterrestrials
Aliens can’t hear us, says astronomer
Fainter broadcasting signals and digital switchover mean Earth will soon be undetectable to extraterrestrialsHuman beings are making it harder for extraterrestials to pick up our broadcasts and make contact, the world’s leading expert on the search for alien life warned yesterday.At a special meeting on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (Seti), the US astronomer Frank [...]
Aliens Could Be Right Under Our Noses
The question of whether there is life on other planets has kept scientists searching for years, but it now appears that the answer has come in variant life forms, likely miniscule microbes, found right here on Earth, according to award-winning Arizona …
Life, but not as we know it
If aliens do exist in the Goldilocks zones of outer space, I’m not convinced we’ll recognise themFor 21st-century renaissance science, look no further than the stars. Closer to home, the Royal Society, as part of its 350th anniversary celebrations, this week brought together some dizzying intellects to ponder the emergent field of astrobiology, and ask: [...]
Scientists to consider broadening search for aliens
Britain’s Royal Society is hosting a two-day event for scientists to consider new ways, and new places, to search for alien beings.
ET or BBC3? Pick one … | Media Monkey
Along with more channels, better reception and the joys of the electronic programme guide, digital television may have one unexpected consequence – blowing a bloody great big hole in the chances we will ever make contact with aliens. Dr Frank Drake, who as the founder of SETI – the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence – is [...]
The best aliens are those in our imagination
So all aliens are likely to be humanoid, says an academic? What a pity for all those fantastic creatures of film and literatureHere we are swimming three-dimensionally through the blue dream of Avatar when some spoil-sport astro-biologist called Simon Conway Morris snatches off our glasses to tell us that, when the third encounter happens, [...]