This summer, director Fede Alvarez returns the infamous Alien franchise to its monster-movie roots, feeding a group of hapless young space colonists into a nest of “xenomorphs.” It remains to be seen whether Alien: Romulus will be more than a loving tribute to Ridley Scott’s original 1979 Alien, but it hardly matters—Alien is a series… Read More »
We have no good reason to believe that aliens have made contact with Earth. Of course, there are conspiracy theories and some rather strange reports of damage to cattle, but none of them are credible. Physicist Enrico Fermi found this strange. The formulation of the puzzle he proposed in the 1950s, now known as the… Read More »
In “The 3-Body Problem” a planet went up in flames.netflix Netflix’s “The 3-Body Problem” is based on a science fiction trilogy and follows a group of physicists. We asked an astronomer and an aerospace engineer to explain some of the show’s scientific concepts. Fermi paradox and Wow! It might be helpful to know a little… Read More »