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One of the most famous messages ever beamed to space was a string of 1,679 bits sent by the Arecibo radio telescope in 1974. But if E.T. sent us such a string, how could we Earthlings even begin to ...

A simulated “alien” signal sent by a Nasa orbiter circling Mars has finally been cracked after months by a father-daughter duo, revealing the cosmic coded message. Nasa collaborated with SETI ...

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Rebecca Charbonneau is a historian at the American Institute of Physics, College Park, Maryland, and the author of Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain. As the electronic signals ...