-
A NASA filmmaker has claimed that telescopes on Earth have discovered evidence of intelligent alien life, and the announcement may come within the next month. Science filmmaker Simon Holland, who has worked on projects with the BBC, Nat Geo, and NASA, told The Mirror last week that two groups of astronomers are vying to publish the first confirmed evidence of a possible extraterrestrial civilization. “We have found a non-human extraterrestrial intelligence in our galaxy, and people don’t know about…
-
Sign up for the Smarter Faster newsletter A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. A black hole is one of the most fascinating of all cosmic phenomena. Essentially, black holes are locations in space that completely overturn our intuition of how space and time behave. In movies, they are often depicted as the ultimate danger — ravenous monsters that will reach out and grab…
-
There is no definitive evidence yet that ancient hominids were inferior to Homo sapiens in cognitive development. Were Neanderthals really just recent ancestors who were surpassed by the smarter and more agile Homo sapiens? This position may be wrong, writes IFLScience. Neanderthals lived on Earth together with early Homo sapiens and died out about 40 thousand years ago. It is early humans who are blamed for the extinction of the Neanderthals, although this theory remains…
-
A Harrowing Account of Aliens in the House Source link
-
Two men who won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics are pioneers in artificial intelligence (AI), and one of them is often called its “godfather.” According to Reuters, American physicist John Hopfield and AI expert Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the prestigious prize this week. Hinton, known as the “godfather of AI,” made groundbreaking contributions in 2012 that helped shape modern neural networks. However, in 2023, he left his role at Google to join others warning…