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July 21, 2015

Hawking launches biggest-ever search for alien life
London (AFP) July 20, 2015
British cosmologist Stephen Hawking on Monday launched the biggest-ever search for intelligent extraterrestrial life in a $100-million (92-million-euro), 10-year project to scan the heavens. Russian Silicon Valley entrepreneur Yuri Milner, who is funding the Breakthrough Listen initiative, said it would be the most intensive scientific search ever undertaken for signs of alien civilisation. "In an infinite universe, there must be other occurrences of life," Hawking said at the launch event at th ... read more

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