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In a new, non-peer-reviewed paper, a scientist from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) brings together an eclectic team of researchers to examine the biggest existential threats to humanity and ...

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Mass extinctions, cosmic disasters and Robin Hanson’s “great filter” theory suggest every civilization faces near-impossible tests, with humanity’s survival still uncertain. H-1B update: Florida ...

In our quest to understand our place in the cosmos, two important concepts often emerge: the Fermi Paradox and the Drake Equation. The Fermi Paradox underscores a contradiction between the high ...

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My feeling is that any species sufficiently advanced to attain interstellar travel would rub us out like a pesky rodent infestation, if they even recognized us as equals at all. Click to expand ...