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Advanced aliens could be chatting with each other using light flashes in plain sight, similar to how fireflies communicate, according to a new study that could lead to new approaches in finding ...

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We might not be looking in the right places, scientists warn ADVANCED alien civilisations might be talking to each other across the vast reaches of space using a “firefly” technique. That’s according ...

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A group of Australian scientists have revealed how we may be able to learn to speak with aliens, and the answer is found right here on Earth. If we do make contact with extraterrestrial life, it will ...

The languages used by extraterrestrials might be very different from our own, as was explored in the film Arrival (Credit: Alamy) Alien lifeforms are likely to have evolved their own unique ways of ...