Kai Cenat, a popular Twitch streamer, is inspiring Black schoolchildren to read by reading aloud on camera every day. His example is setting a powerful precedent for improving literacy rates.

We recently discussed the different types of worlds that the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is expected to find that might have noticeable biosignatures. However, no matter how good the ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

Marcello Hernández learned the hard way on “Saturday Night Live” that each week is a clean slate — and not all of them are going to be home runs. Sitting with Brittany Broski on her “Royal Court” ...

For over two decades, millions of people volunteered the computational capacity of their computers to help UC Berkeley scientists in their search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). The goal of ...

One day, probably far off in the very distant future, if astronomers are correct in their assumptions about the vastness of space, Earth will be visited by intelligent beings from another planet.

Scientists and NASA officials insist the object is a natural comet, not alien technology. Recent observations found no radio signals from the comet that would suggest it was artificial. The comet made ...

How large is a large language model? Think about it this way. In the center of San Francisco there’s a hill called Twin Peaks from which you can view nearly the entire city. Picture all of it—every ...

"What are you saying here, Marco?" the president asked the bashful secretary of state after reading his letter in front of reporters SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty President Donald Trump read aloud a ...

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

Astronomers don’t search for life by seeing planets directly — they read the light that passes through their atmospheres. When a distant planet crosses in front of its star, some of that starlight ...