Coming to you live from space radio.

Deep space radio signals might be trying to tell us something. IBM and the SETI Institute are working together to analyze six terabytes of these complex signals to listen for patterns of life. Researchers are using IBM Analytics on Apache Spark to sift through signals gathered by the Allen Telescope Array, and cognitive machine learning to determine which signals are from humans, and which might be from aliens. Maybe they’ll ask us to call-in.

Learn more about listening for aliens →

8 years ago

What do the critics think of the “Boy” from A Boy And His Atom?

“Here’s hoping he makes many a sequel.” 
—Bob Mondello, All Things Considered

Hear the full review on NPR ➝

11 years ago