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ADVANCED alien civilisations might be talking to each other across the vast reaches of space using a “firefly” technique.

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While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

Advanced aliens could be chatting with each other using light flashes in plain sight, similar to how fireflies communicate, ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

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