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Dyson spheres: How to spot an alien megastructure

Dyson spheres: How to spot an alien megastructure

27 January 2021

Intelligent extraterrestrials may have built vast solar power plants around their host stars. The hunt for their telltale glow is hotting up

Geraint Lewis at New Scientist Live 2019

The search for aliens: Is anybody out there?

12 December 2019

Intelligent life in the universe seems to be vanishingly rare. Astrophysicist Geraint Lewis reveals our odds of us ever meeting aliens

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