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Detecting intelligence in the dark, Shannon entropy and the search for alien signals

Before we can find alien intelligence, we must first define what intelligence looks like from the outside. The answer, ...
Opinion

The founding father of American literature, Charles Brockden Brown saw his nation's dark side

Murder, suicide, spontaneous combustion, sleepwalking, ventriloquism: These are some of the sensational events in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810). As the United States' first ...

One Year Ago, Crunchyroll Released Its Darkest Shonen Anime of 2025 (And It Still Holds That Title)

Crunchyroll's darkest anime of Summer 2025, Takopi's Original Sin, has emerged as one of the darkest anime in recent years.

Does Avi Loeb—Head of the White House’s New UFO Council—Know Something the Rest of Us Don’t?

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb argues 3I/ATLAS and other interstellar objects may hint at alien technology, drawing fame, ...

Terra Invicta: Dark Skies

Dark Skies Face the alien invasion in two new scenarios for Terra Invicta. Drop into a world shattered by nuclear fire a century ago, or rewind to 2003 and trade the rush to the stars for a slower ...

Does Avi Loeb Know Something the Rest of Us Don’t?

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb argues 3I/ATLAS and other interstellar objects may hint at alien technology, drawing fame, funding, and fierce criticism.
New Scientist

This physicist is hunting for the biggest black hole in the universe

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

WWII Pilots Were Tailed in the Night By Mysterious Fireballs They Couldn’t Shoot Down or Outrun

The pilots dubbed the fireballs “foo fighters” but had no idea what they were. Plasma? Enemy tech? Aliens? We still haven’t ...

Muse frontman Matt Bellamy: 'I've got to make music, otherwise I'm going to die'

Splitting up with his wife left Muse frontman Matt Bellamy in a dark place. He survived by writing the most exposed, personal ...

Colin Farrell Says Playing John Sugar in ‘Sugar’ Was a “Moral Palate Cleanser” After ‘The Penguin’

In 2020, Colin Farrell began a six-year back-and-forth between two polar opposite characters, Oz “The Penguin” Cobb and John ...

The End of Everything by M John Harrison — a dark vision of Britain’s decline

A characteristically apocalyptic novel is both a horrifying and compassionate view of an isolated nation where yuppie ...