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Features Interview
“Contact with intelligent
aliens would have
dramatic implications
for the psyche of the
human species”
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has
drawn criticism for suggesting that
‘Oumuamua, a weird object that passed
through our solar system, could be an
alien spacecraft. But scientists must keep
an open mind, he tells Leah Crane