Star Bottle as seen by scientists: an interview with Giovanni Covone

Giovanni Covone, astrophysicist and professor at Federico II University in Naples, was one of the guests at the latest edition of the Genoa Science Festival. He is interested in the study of exoplanets, astrobiology and cosmology, but communicating scientific ideas is his other passion: he is the author of Altre terre. Viaggio alla scoperta dei […] (Other Earths: A Journey to Discover […]).

Will AI help us talk to aliens?

In the film Arrival, a linguist must decipher an alien language based on palindromic phrases. Today, if we were faced with a similar situation, research into artificial intelligence (AI) could help us understand how languages develop. Although human language leaves no traces in fossils, we can simulate the evolution of language using AI, which […]