Search for alien life gets $100M and Stephen Hawking’s blessing

SAN FRANCISCO — The search for intelligent life in the universe is getting an injection of resources, brains and money from Silicon Valley. Tech investor Yuri Milner, alongside physicist Stephen Hawking and famed astrophysicist and cosmologist Lord Martin Rees, announced the Breakthrough Initatives on Monday. Over the next 10 years, Milner will will invest $100 […]