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  "id": 545503,
  "title": "The great silence: why haven’t we found any aliens yet?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/the-great-silence-why-havent-we-found-any-aliens-yet",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-11T04:00:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Science",
    "slug": "guardian-science",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/aug/11/the-great-silence-why-havent-we-found-any-aliens-yet"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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? • The summer issue of the Long Read magazine is out now. Click here to order During a visit to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1950, Enrico Fermi, one of the architects of the Manhattan Project, was having lunch with other physicists when the conversation…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}