The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence may not be a cheerful greeting. A growing group of researchers is arguing that our inaugural contact is more likely to be a distress call, the ...

The unsettling logic behind a “last message” universe The idea that our first confirmed alien signal might be a civilization’s final broadcast is rooted less in pessimism than in probability. If ...

Behind the acid blood and jump scares of the Alien franchise is an even more insidious horror: a single employer with ...

Alien, a startup looking to build trust infrastructure for the internet as the era of artificial intelligence agents changes how people interact with businesses and one another, today announced it has ...