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Albert Einstein is easily one of the most brilliant physicists who ever lived. His theories of general relativity changed our understanding of the cosmos, as did his work on quantum theory. But his ...

A few days before Halloween in 1961, a young astronomer was mulling over a fairly serious problem. Soon the astronomer, Frank Drake, would be convening a meeting at the National Radio Astronomy ...