Hawking-backed $100 mn alien life hunt finds no evidence
Astronomers looking for signals from alien civilisations in the Stephen Hawking-backed hunt have found no evidence of life in its first year of operation. The $100-million 'Breakthrough Listen' project funded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner found that 11 of the most promising radio signals believed to be coming from nearby stars were actually interference from phones and other Earthly devices.