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How big money is powering a massive hunt for alien intelligence

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Daniel CleryIn 2015, Sofia Sheikh was at loose ends. Her adviser at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, with whom she studied hot, giant exoplanets, had left for a new job.

Browsing reddit, she saw a post about a lavishly funded new search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) and noticed that its leader was also at UC Berkeley: astrophysicist Andrew Siemion.

She asked her former adviser for an introduction and met with Siemion when he was still unpacking boxes in a new office. “Everything’s kind of history from there,” says Sheikh, who became the team’s first undergraduate student.Sheikh is now a Ph.D.

student at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), University Park, where she led a radio survey of 20 nearby star systems.

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