In the face of numerous obstacles, Jill Tarter still managed to spearhead the search for extraterrestrial intelligence for decades, as this biography recounts (SN: 8/5/17, p. 26). (sciencenews.org)
It may well be that throughout the universe beings usually detect evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence with more traditional radio telescopes. (scientificamerican.com)
Psychologist and SETI researcher Douglas Vakoch, who heads the nonprofit organization Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence in San Francisco, suggests researchers also gauge reactions to different scenarios of alien microbial discovery. (sciencenews.org)