One of the most famous messages ever beamed to space was a string of 1,679 bits sent by the Arecibo radio telescope in 1974. But if E.T. sent us such a string, how could we Earthlings even begin to ...

In Hollywood, we've received messages from extraterrestrials many times. In Contact, a message from the stars started out as a mathematical sequence of prime numbers. In Arrival, a linguist and a ...

On a Saturday night in late August, Luke Farritor, a 21-year old computer science student at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was on his way home from a party at a friend's house in Omaha when he saw ...

Thanks to X-ray technology, scientists in Naples, Italy, are reading papyrus scrolls that were burned in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E. The scrolls were recovered from the ruins of the ...