Freeman Dyson

In his science fiction classic Star Maker, he imagines a way to overcome fascism on a galactic scale.

and reminded me to be respectful to everyone.

Though quantum mechanics is an incredibly successful theory, nobody knows what it means. Scientists now must confront its philosophical implications.

Is intelligent life a temporary phenomenon that is insignificant in the grand scheme of things, or might it play a role in shaping the large-scale evolution of the universe? While it has often been assumed that humans will have no real impact on the cosmos at large, some of the greatest physicist...

There are many ways astronomers try to find extraterrestrials — from radio waves to pollution

Radio waves are the most common technosignatures featured in sci-fi movies and books. But they are not the only signals that could be out there.

Remembering Frank Drake, who led science in listening for an extraterrestrial "whisper we can't quite hear"

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Archive of the "eco disasters" section from the Dialectical Butterflies website. Very much a work in progress.

In 1971, English mathematical physicist and Nobel-prize winner Roger Penrose proposed how energy could be extracted from a rotating black hole. He argued that this could be done by building a harness around the black hole's accretion disk, where infalling matter is accelerated to close to the speed of light, triggering the release of energy in multiple wavelengths.

What are alien megastructures and could they be signs of alien civilizations? The search for extraterrestrial civilizations is rife with debate.

A critique of French philosopher Georges Bataille (10 September 1897 – 9 July 1962) by Stuart Wise: January 2008. © 2019 Dialectical Butterflies.

With the dizzying interests of a Renaissance man, Carl Sagan exploded the frontiers of space science and brought laypeople along for the ride.

In "The Possibility of Life," science journalist Jaime Green examines humanity's intriguing history of looking to the stars and finding ourselves reflected in them..

G. H. Hardy (1877–1947) was a brilliant mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory and mathematical analysis. Born in 1877 in England, he was renowned for his eccentric…

TOPEKA, Kansas — Last year, before Kansas voters overwhelmingly rejected an amendment to strip abortion rights from the state constitution, state Rep. Carl Turner had a short line on his website touting his anti-abortion stance. "I support life including the unborn," it read, according to Wayback Ma...

Check out something is rotten in the state of QED. It's a paper by Oliver Consa, who has done some excellent detective work on the history of quantum electrodynamics (QED). He has delved deep into the claims that QED is…

Jon Rappoport | For elites, power and control is all about convincing populations that a massive intervention is necessary to save all of humanity from 'a collapse of all life on Earth.'

That's where we should be looking for them.

We're still in the early days of searching for life elsewhere. The Perseverance rover is on its way to a paleo-delta on Mars to look for fossilized signs of ancient bacterial life. SETI's been watching the sky with radio dishes, listening for signals from distant worlds. Our telescopes are beginning to scan the atmospheres of distant exoplanets for biosignatures.