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Extraterrestrial
Numbers | Math
What Are the Odds of Alien Contact?
Bringing the Drake Equation up to date.
Ideas | Artificial Intelligence
It May Not Feel Like Anything To Be an Alien
Humans may have one thing that advanced aliens don’t—consciousness.
Matter | Aliens
Why Discovering Martians Could Be Disappointing
There are two kinds of extraterrestrial life with very different implications.
Culture | Astronomy
Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox
The results of galactic colonization models are a mixed bag for SETI optimists.
Related Facts So Romantic
“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.” —Jules Verne
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Biology
Australia’s Secret Rescue of Ancient Trees Offers an Insight Into Evolution
When I read that more than a billion animals had lost their lives to bushfires still raging in Australia, I froze, staring at the incomprehensible figure on my screen. A sort of sinking…
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Ideas
This Philosophical Argument Convinced People to Give More to Charity
Last fall Fiery Cushman, the director of the Moral Psychology Research Lab at Harvard, and I announced a contest: We would award $1,000 to the author of an argument that effectively convinces…
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Culture
How the Pandemic Has Tested Behavioral Science
In March the United Kingdom curiously declined to impose significant social distancing measures in response to the global pandemic. The government was taking advice from the so-called “Nudge…
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Culture
The Dr. Strange of the American Revolution
I ascribe the Success of our Revolution to a Galaxy,” Benjamin Rush wrote to John Adams, in 1812. He wasn’t invoking the astrological. It was commonplace then to associate a bright…
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