What springs to mind at the mention of "alien"? Little green men with antenna in silver suits? Grey-skinned, orb-eyed beings? Brightly lit UFOs hovering in the sky? For social and political scientist, ...

In a movie called The Adjustment Bureau, mysterious beings from another dimension set out to govern our planet by way of mind control. The premise is that, after centuries of dreadful atrocities — the ...

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Be it sci-fi, immigration or even artificial intelligence, the concept of aliens mirrors how we define fear, fascination and the "others" among us. What springs to mind at the mention of "alien"?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What do our imagined vision of aliens tell us about ourselves?James Dittinger/Syfy/Everett Collection/picture alliance What ...