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Posted inEditor's Pick

The Search for Extraterrestrial Life as We Don’t Know It

by Carolyn Wells January 19, 2023January 19, 2023

“Scientists are abandoning conventional thinking to search for extraterrestrial creatures that bear little resemblance to Earthlings.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

If Aliens Exist, Here’s How We’ll Find Them

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 25, 2021October 19, 2022

“We are near the end of Darwinian evolution, but technological evolution of intelligent beings is just beginning.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Close Encounters of the Digital Kind

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 11, 2019October 19, 2022

“The idea seems to be that we all live in the great database in the sky, occasionally summoning aliens with our minds.” Emily Harnett explores Silicon Valley’s appropriation of UFO culture.

Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature

It’s Time for Real Talk About Aliens

by Aaron Gilbreath March 22, 2018October 19, 2022

No time in human history has presented clearer, more compelling evidence that something unexplained is interacting with human beings, be they aliens or UFOs.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Researching Our Martian Heritage

by Aaron Gilbreath January 4, 2016October 19, 2022

In Nautilus, Tim Folger writes about how scientist are still debating whether organic and inorganic materials found on Martian meteorite ALH84001 contain evidence that life existed on Mars before it existed on Earth. If it did, then life could have spread to Earth from meteorites, which could make human beings ─ and other Earthly life ─ […]

Posted inFiction, Reading List

Reading List: 6 Stories for the Science-Fiction Newbie

by Longreads May 20, 2013October 19, 2022

Hilary Armstrong is a literature student at U.C. Santa Barbara and a Longreads intern. She also happens to love science fiction, so she put together a #longreads list for sci-fi newbies. * * * Have you heard? Science fiction is “in”—nerds at the movies, nerds everywhere. This is thrilling if you are familiar with the […]

Posted inFiction, Reading List

Reading List: 6 Stories for the Science-Fiction Newbie

by Longreads May 20, 2013October 19, 2022

Hilary Armstrong is a literature student at U.C. Santa Barbara and a Longreads intern. She also happens to love science fiction, so she put together a #longreads list for sci-fi newbies. * * * Have you heard? Science fiction is “in”—nerds at the movies, nerds everywhere. This is thrilling if you are familiar with the […]

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