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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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Humanity is on the way to confirming the existence of non-human entities and making contact with aliens within the next 50 years, as predicted by a leading British space scientist. According to Dame ...