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The eerie silence

Half a century after it began, the quest to find life elsewhere in the universe has drawn an almost total blank. Paul Davies calls for the search to be relaunched by examining not just radio signals but all physical and astronomical anomalies. Don't miss the author's free online lecture on this topic on 31 March – follow this link for more details.

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