Throughout the twentieth century, from the furor over Percival Lowell's claim of canals on Mars to the sophisticated Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence, otherworldly life has often intrigued and occasionally consumed science and the public.…
Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. A distinguished physicist's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology, it was written for the layman, but proved one…
SETI -- the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence -- is undergoing something of a renaissance, and alongside the work of the scientists almost a million PC users round the world are participating in the SERENDIP IV project through the "SETI at…
Science meets fictionZo goed als zeker zijn er buitenaardse wezens. Maar het is vrijwel uitgesloten dat we die zullen ontmoeten. De Duitse wetenschapsastronaut Ulrich Walter ontwikkelt deze stellingen in een spannende dialoog met zijn lezers, en…