Editor’s note: many of the tools that are used in astronomy to conduct analyses of chemistry in space – astrochemistry – utilize technology that has had long-standing applications in a […]
technology
Posted inIntelligence & Language, Interstellar, Origin & Evolution of Life, SETI & Technosignatures, Status Report
Algorithmic Bottlenecks In Evolution: Genetic code, Symbolic Language, And The GreatFilter Hypothesis
The Great Filter hypothesis proposes that the emergence of technological societies capable of interstellar travel depends on a small number of exceptionally hard and highly improbable steps.
Posted inAtmospheres, Climate, Weather, Intelligence & Language, Status Report
The New Geological Age That Never Was Or The Multiple Layers Of The Transientocene
Since its humble origins, humans have left imprints on the face of the planet. From the profound transformation unleashed by the Neolithic Revolution, about 12000 years ago, till the present, […]
Posted inFossils & Paleontology, Press Release
Prior Indigenous Technological Species
One of the primary open questions of astrobiology is whether there is extant or extinct life elsewhere the Solar System. Implicit in much of this work is that we are […]