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<em>The Visit</em>: What aliens would really mean for us as humans

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The Visit: What aliens would really mean for us as humans

We're prepared for visiting aliens, but not for the feelings they could prompt, says Michael Madsen, the film-maker behind The Visit: An Alien Encounter

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<em>Here Be Dragons</em>: Hostile aliens, tall people and black holes

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Here Be Dragons: Hostile aliens, tall people and black holes

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Continental break-up set the stage for life in Earth's mantle

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Continental break-up set the stage for life in Earth's mantle

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Sniff out alien life with giant library of weird chemicals

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Sniff out alien life with giant library of weird chemicals

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Nuclear apocalypse or nanotech invasions could reveal alien life

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Nuclear apocalypse or nanotech invasions could reveal alien life

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$100m project uses world's best radio telescopes to find aliens

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$100m project uses world's best radio telescopes to find aliens

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The human universe: If aliens exist, do they know we're here?

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The human universe: If aliens exist, do they know we're here?

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The human universe: Could we colonise the stars?

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The human universe: Could we colonise the stars?

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Is this ET? Mystery of strange radio bursts from space

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Is this ET? Mystery of strange radio bursts from space

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Suez superhighway: Stopping the tide of alien invaders

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Suez superhighway: Stopping the tide of alien invaders

We're creating a thoroughfare for invasive species to pour into the Mediterranean from the Red Sea – but for once there is a way to stem the flow

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Giant robot eyes scan stars for dust

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Contacting aliens: War of the worlds or war over cash?

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Lava could have preserved the origins of life on the moon

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Is the answer to life, the universe and everything 37?

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