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 ...

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, ...

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"?