In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...
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When the sky rains fire

For a long time, scientists such as Nasa’s Donald Kessler have feared a cataclysmic chain reaction caused by overcrowding of space debris in Earth’s orbit. The recent crash of smoking satellite junk ...
Ars Technica: The Voyager Golden Record is perhaps the best known example of humans attempting to communicate with an alien species, spearheaded by the late Carl Sagan, among others. But what are the ...
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