Given the size and age of the universe, it should be full of species with technology far more advanced than our own. So where are they? By Adam Kirsch. Read by James Sobol Kelly Read the text version here Support the Guardian today: theguardian.com/longreadpod Adapted from We Want to Believe:...
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New Hampshire’s Republican primary for an open U.S. Senate seat is a back-to-the-future moment, featuring two older former senators who last held office many years ago
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Former New Mexico lawmaker pleads guilty to diverting public school funds
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Missouri asks US Supreme Court to allow use of new Trump-backed congressional districts in midterms
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Milky Way at the dining table: Bath art show celebrates 18th-century brother and sister astronomers
Exhibition opens in former home of William Herschel, who discovered Uranus, and his comet-spotting sibling Caroline From the garden of their Georgian townhouse in Bath in the late 18th century, a brother and sister made a series of extraordinary astronomical discoveries. A new art show in the house where the...
Genetically modified pig kidney keeps man alive for record nine months
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