Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine a frequently floated belief that ...

Be it sci-fi, immigration or even artificial intelligence, the concept of "aliens" mirrors how we define fear, fascination and the "others" among us.What springs to mind at the mention of "alien"?

Italian American physicist Enrico Fermi once asked, “if we live in an infinite universe with infinite capacity for life, why haven’t we seen any aliens?” This question is known as the Fermi Paradox – ...

The human brain is a marvel of neurons firing electrical impulses through complex networks of neural pathways. It can also be notoriously slow when it comes to figuring out new solutions for ...

The problem with recognition of alien intelligence raised in your review of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s book Shroud was also tackled in a short sci-fi story from the 1970s, in which some humans get stuck on ...