The Wire

Films such as ET and Contact are cult classics that have got us talking about life in outer space…and now they’re going to be part of the curriculum for a world-first course in a Wales university. Never before have students been able to study astrobiology, but this year Professor Mark Brake will head the new course at Glamorgan Uni which looks at subjects from astrophysics to science culture in the media. Professor Brake speaks from Wales about whether the course is proof we are finally acknowledging that life does exist out there…