In a recent podcast, Andy Mcgrillen and Dan Zetterström covered a wide range of topics, with a standout subject being the Kardashev scale—a system for classifying a civilization's advancement based on ...

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In 1961 Frank Drake wrote down his now-eponymous equation with which one can predict the number of technological civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy. If one can determine the values of the various ...

Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at City University of New York, has a pretty mindblowing article in the latest issue of Cosmos on how super-advanced civilizations across the universe ...

Michael Shermer is an adjunct professor in the School of Politics and Economics at Claremont Graduate University, the publisher of Skeptic magazine and a monthly columnist for Scientific American. His ...

Lots of news reports are speculating about a new paper issued by Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) researchers in Russia that reports the detection of a signal anomaly coming from the ...