In this scenario, our first contact with aliens would be tragic. We should look for "loud shouts in the night".

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A new trackway was recently uncovered in Mongolia in a sedimentary layer from the Lower Cretaceous. That means that whatever ...

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Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Katy ...

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In] any piece of beautiful mathematics, you almost always find that there is a physical system which actually mirrors the ...