The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence may not be a cheerful greeting. A growing group of researchers is arguing that our inaugural contact is more likely to be a distress call, the ...

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Here’s another example: the alien Message in Stanislaw Lem’s His Master’s Voice. It contains instructions for making a substance. When scientists make it, it looks quasi-biological, like protoplasm, ...