The question of whether or not we are alone in the universe has preoccupied scientists for decades, but efforts to find life beyond our planet have so far been unfruitful. Now experts are planning to ...
All fiction is metaphor,” wrote Ursula K Le Guin. “Science fiction is metaphor.” The writer, most famous for her Earthsea fantasy novels, captured the civil rights movement, second-wave feminism and ...
Scientists plan to further their quest to find extraterrestrial life by broadcasting the Earth’s location in outer space, along with nude pictures of a human man and woman. The Beacon in the Galaxy ...
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