We’ve seen a lot of stories on AI lately. Some pieces expound the wonders of it, while many others preach that it is only a matter of time before a Skynet-type event puts an end to us all. While I doubt that will come to pass, it’s clear that in the short term, AI might…

Unless you’ve recently been abducted, you’ve probably heard about the House Oversight Committee’s hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). Like most televised congressional hearings, it wasn’t exactly riveting television, but there are plenty of dedicated journalists here at Planetary Broadcast HQ who sat through the whole thing, and they tell me there were some exciting…

If you can recall high school biology class, you might remember hearing the term abiogenesis. In short, it’s the idea that life arose from nonliving substances via natural chemical reactions. Most biologists who study this theory hold that it was a very lengthy process with numerous incremental steps of increasing complexity. Theories abound about the…