Media appearances
SETI and Beyond
With: Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination
A technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilization could likely detect life on Earth, if such beings exist. Life on Earth could be detectable in our planet’s atmospheric spectral lines for over a billion years.
Is ET Lurking In Our Cosmic Backyard? With James Benford and Paul Davies
With: Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination
The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination is proud to welcome James Benford ('69) and Paul Davies to UC San Diego on January 30th to discuss new ideas in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
This Mortal Coil - Paul Davies on Viruses & Life Itself
With: Nightlife with Indira Naidoo
Searching for the secrets of life, scientists for generations have questioned if life really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium accomplishes things so dazzling that no human engineer can match it.
The search for extraterrestrial life
With: Canadian Broadcast Company (CBC)
It's a search that has fired the imagination of countless people the past century, but even though humans have discovered almost two thousand planets - or exoplanets - outside our solar system, we've yet to discover any traces of life.
Why There Isn't a Cure for Cancer... Yet!
With: Going underground with RT (Russian Government Media)
We speak to Professor Paul Davies, author of ‘The Demon in the Machine’.
Ideas Whose Time Has Come: from Cosmology to Cancer
With: Adelaide Festival of Ideas
From dark energy to the Higgs boson. from cancer folklore to synthetic biology; great ideas often languish in obscurity until, decades later, they burst into relevance.
Paul Davies on the origin of life and the evolution of cancer
With: The Life Scientific — BBC Radio 4
Physicist Paul Davies talks to Jim al-Khalili about the origin of life, the search for aliens and the evolution of cancer.
Gravitational waves detected?
With: The Science Show with Robyn Williams
One hundred years ago Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves. In March, researchers at Harvard University claimed they had detected the waves for the first time. If true, it would be a big deal indeed.
Is there anyone out there?
On February 27th, Paul Davies was featured on Tech Tonic, a weekly podcast that looks at the way technology is changing our economies, societies and daily lives. Hosted by John Thornhill, innovation editor at the Financial Times.
Give it a listen with the link below!