But by night, his work takes on a more out-of-this-world nature – he’s devising the methods we'll need to talk to aliens. Creating algorithms that can break down and understand languages on Earth, he ...

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In science fiction, a signal from aliens is usually a cue for Earth’s fighter pilots to run to their spacecraft, ready for battle. But in reality, it would be a bit different, according to one of ...

Scientists are putting together a protocol for the moment Earth receives a message from extra-terrestrial life, despite a report in the US that suggests contact is unlikely any time soon. Earlier this ...

SOME scientists and experts believe that it is merely an inevitability that humans will discover they are not alone in the universe. This prompts the poignant question of what we will do to prepare ...

Henry Thomas was just 10 years old when he starred in classic 80s movie, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial - he's changed so much since his days acting alongside Drew Barrymore Steven Spielberg's 1982 film E ...

Elliott has crafted the ultra-complex linguistic technology needed to decode any alien message, and leads what’s known as SETI’s ‘post-detection hub’. Established by Elliott just last November, the ...