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New Quiet Place movie adds to irrational fears over marauding aliens

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New Quiet Place movie adds to irrational fears over marauding aliens

Sci-fi depictions of extraterrestrial invasions can heighten anxiety about our efforts to make first contact, says METI president Douglas Vakoch

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This image from ESO?s VISTA telescope captures a celestial landscape of vast, glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young stars. This infrared view reveals the stellar nursery known as NGC 6357 in a new light. It was taken as part of the VISTA Variables in the V?a L?ctea (VVV) survey, which is currently scanning the Milky Way in a bid to map our galaxy?s structure and explain how it formed.

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Why this is a golden age for life to thrive across the universe

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HY0AKX Little green alien and welcome sign welcomes visitors to a business in Roswell, New Mexico

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Why our location in the Milky Way is perfect for finding alien life

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Why herbs evolved to smell and taste so delicious

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Johnson's abyssal seadevil (Melanocetus johnsonii) portrait, cleared and stained by scientists, showing cartilage in blue and bones in red. Clearly visible in this picture are the pharyngeal jaws, which are like small forks that work like a second set of jaws that can pull prey items further into its mouth. The gill arches and gill rakers are also on full display. RV Sonne, Cruise SO285, South Atlantic, Benguela upwelling region off the coast of South Africa and Namibia. Captive..

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Striking image lets you see inside a deep-sea anglerfish's killer jaws

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Don't forget birds and bats when renovating or building new homes

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Quantum biology: New clues on how life might make use of weird physics

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To rescue biodiversity, we need a better way to measure it

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Huge jellyfish invasion could disrupt Arctic ecosystems as waters warm

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Dozens of stars show signs of hosting advanced alien civilisations

Sufficiently advanced aliens would be able to capture vast quantities of energy from their star using a massive structure called a Dyson sphere. Such a device would give off an infrared heat signature - and astronomers have just spotted 60 stars that seem to match

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The hunt for alien planets and extraterrestrial life

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Protocells on early Earth may have been formed by squeezing geysers

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Culling predatory starfish conserves coral on the Great Barrier Reef

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Deadly upwellings of cold water pose threat to migratory sharks

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