All About Space

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There will be discussions on how humanity should be represented – if we even respond. Some religions may deny the discovery. Others may embrace it within their beliefs. Discovering that we are not the only life in the universe would likely have a lar

All About Space

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“My best guess for when we’ll detect extraterrestrial life – if, in fact, we make contact in my lifetime – is by 2030, a decade from now.” “I’ve bet everyone a cup of coffee that we’ll find a signal within two decades. If not, I’ll have the opportun

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 275 pages | Hardback/ebook Editor Desirina Boskovich Publisher Abrams Image As is often the case with such things, the subtitle to this eccentric collection – The Secret History Of Science Fiction And Fantasy – is arguably a little

Writing Magazine

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US small press Sliced Up is looking for short stories involving menopause for a horror fiction anthology, Bodies Full of Burning: An Anthology of Menopause-Themed Horror. Stories, 1,000-4,000 words, must include menopause as the main plot point. Subm

Newsweek

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“Just as our attempts to find extraterrestrials are becoming more advanced…humans are creating more technology-produced noise than ever before, undermining our ability to detect potential alien transmissions,” Newsweek wrote. Cellphones, Wi-Fi and GP

Nautilus

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Chicago-bound motorists passing mile marker 121 on Interstate-88 through Aurora, Illinois, on Sept. 30, 2011, at 3:00 p.m. likely noticed nothing that seemed particularly remarkable. To their right was a scene of humdrum office parks, and to the left

Fortean Times

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SEND FORUM SUBMISSIONS TO THE EDITOR: DRSUTTON@FORTEANTIMES.COM Suppose a UFO of extraterrestrial origins lands on your back lawn. An alien space explorer emerges. What should you, as a UK home-owner, do? An unlikely event perhaps, but the possibilit

Writing Magazine

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The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners on the 2021 Locus Awards in June. The Locus, are along with the Hugo Awards the most significant US awards for science fiction and fantasy. The winners were: Science Fiction Novel, Network Ef

SFX

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UK/US: Netflix, streaming now Producer Nigel Paterson Narrator Sophie Okonedo In a few centuries’ time, a documentary series like this will probably be hosted by a clone of David Attenborough, jetting around the galaxy studying extraterrestrial life.

The Atlantic

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On the night before Halloween in 1938, a strange story crackled over radios across the United States. An announcer interrupted the evening’s regular programming for a “special bulletin,” which went on to describe an alien invasion in a field in New J

Writing Magazine

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Science fiction is a genre that generates a great deal of debate today – not least over a true definition and what titles should be included with the field, which can be thorny enough in its own right. What is not up for debate is the long and varied

NPR

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From lemons to ham, salt is a handy food preservative. But researchers studying some really old salt crystals found them preserving something else — evidence of life.

Anorak Magazine

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A visiting alien from Planet Mercury walked into the town’s square yesterday and gathered a crowd with his cries. “Aliens exist” he shouted “and I am the living proof of it.” He invited people in the crowd to prod him to judge for themselves but the

The Atlantic

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Scientists recently modeled a range of interactions between energy-intensive civilizations and their planets. The results were sobering.

The Atlantic

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Ever since the Renaissance, the sciences have dealt human beings a steady stream of humiliations. The Copernican revolution dismantled the idea that humanity stood at the center of the universe. A cascade of discoveries from the late-18th to the earl

Maximum PC

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FIRST-CONTACT situations tend to go badly in sci-fi. Aliens are generally resourcehungry asset strippers, perfect killing machines, or under threat from the Borg. With intellects that are vast, cool, and unsympathetic, they draw their plans against u

TechLife News

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Feeling like you are being watched? It could be from a lot farther away than you think. Astronomers took a technique used to look for life on other planets and flipped it around — so instead of looking to see what’s out there, they tried to see what

Nautilus

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You might imagine that in the midst of a global pandemic and all of its social and economic fallout that our minds would be laser-focused on immediate, Earthly woes. But apparently not entirely. A case in point is the recent virus-like spread of news

BBC Science Focus Magazine

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Are we alone in the Universe? It’s probably the most profound question science has yet to answer. But so far the search for extraterrestrial life has only found shadows. However, over the next few years the search for alien life is about to seriously

Newsweek International

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“Just as our attempts to find extraterrestrials are becoming more advanced…humans are creating more technology-produced noise than ever before, undermining our ability to detect potential alien transmissions,” Newsweek wrote. Cellphones, Wi-Fi and GP

The Big Issue

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Yes and no. Remember Star Trek history…. The last Great War and one man’s drive to furthering technology which accidentally brought humanity into contact with an advanced alien species brought us to the Star Trek world in canon. The truth is that int

Nautilus

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This September, a team of astronomers noticed that the light from a distant star is flickering in a highly irregular pattern.1 They considered the possibility that comets, debris, and impacts could account for their observations, but each of these ex

Literary Hub

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As an astrobiologist I spend a lot of my time working in the lab with samples from some of the most extreme places on Earth, investigating how life might survive on other worlds in our solar system and what signs of their existence we could detect. I

The Atlantic

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To find signs of plant life on other worlds, it helps to understand the history of our own.

AQ: Australian Quarterly

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ARTICLE BY: Isabelle Gua ran “How inappropriate to call this pla net "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.” – Arthur C. Clarke It was coming at the Covehithe cliff. Under its stains and excrescences were more regular markings, stencilled warnings. Pain

The Atlantic

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Hope Hicks’s surprise announcement, what kids learn from active-shooter drills, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s next project, and more

Nautilus

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You might imagine that in the midst of a global pandemic and all of its social and economic fallout that our minds would be laser-focused on immediate, Earthly woes. But apparently not entirely. A case in point is the recent virus-like spread of news

How It Works

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Alien life is something that everyone ponders at some point. It has allowed science fiction writers and film makers a creative licence, with actors and actresses dressed up in some very questionable attire. However, the truth is that there are so man

Evening Standard

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The influence of science fiction on contemporary art is explosively proliferating, like the Martian red weed in H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds. Everywhere, there are references to authors like Ursula Le Guin, Octavia Butler and J.G. Ballard, all writ

Literary Hub

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In his poem “Harlem,” Langston Hughes asked, “What happens to a dream deferred?” It was a prophetic inquiry, one that questioned a society in which Black people continually faced racial injustice, even though the nation’s ideals were supposedly predi