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Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares have a new book titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us ...

Much has been said about the possibility of Wonder Man's Simon Williams being a mutant, and showrunner Andrew Guest has now addressed the possible X-Men link.

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Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

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While imperceptible to humans, these tiny delays are significant for experiments that rely on pulsars as ultra-precise cosmic clocks, the researchers say, particularly efforts to detect low-frequency ...