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We may be able to find evidence of advanced alien civilizations in pulverized traces of their technology. Oxford astrophysicist Brian Lacki argues in a new, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper that, instead ...

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Steven Spielberg has given world cinema some of its most iconic depictions of extraterrestrial civilizations, but now the legendary director claims to know something about real-life aliens as ...