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03/03/2018 / By Edsel Cook

NASA’s alien-hunting probe discovers 100 new planets orbiting stars outside our solar system

Hopes for the discovery of another Earth – and alien life – have taken off again after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration‘s (NASA) Kepler space telescope discovered nearly 100 new exoplanets, reported The Daily Mail. Data from the space observatory identified 275 possible candidates, which an international team of researchers narrowed down to 95 confirmed planets. Every single one […]

02/13/2018 / By David Williams

AI may have cracked the code to the “world’s most mysterious book;” found in 1912, cryptographers have been trying to crack it for decades

The Voynich manuscript, long considered to be the most mysterious book on Earth, may have finally been cracked. According to one researcher — a computer scientist named Greg Kondrak from the University of Alberta — by using artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of statistical algorithms, it became possible to decipher part of the book and […]

04/28/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Robots may have taken over alien civilizations, astrophysicist claims

If there is alien life out there, it might be anything but organic. According to one prominent astrophysicist, aliens could very well be machines. “My guess is that if we do detect an alien intelligence, it will be nothing like us. It will be some sort of electronic entity,” Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and […]

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