For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...

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PORTSMOUTH — That little alien emoji staring back from your phone, with its smooth, bulbous head and almond-shaped black eyes, has Portsmouth, NH, in its DNA. More than six decades after Betty and ...