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In his letter (Letters, January 10) Douglas Vakoch, president of METI International, the body dedicated to “messaging extraterrestrial intelligence”, questions John Thornhill’s concerns about aliens ...

SO I see that as well as many other things that are amiss with the world – on the local evening news – the elderly population is once again being blamed for another thing ‘wrong’ in the country today.

Bryn Glover gives a negative assessment of the likelihood of life elsewhere in the universe. This is based on a New Scientist article stating the odds of the formation of the last universal common ...