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The search for alien intelligence: SETI is dead — long live SETI

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The closure of the Allen Telescope Array shifts the search for extraterrestrial intelligence away from big science.

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M. Mitchell Waldrop is a features editor for Nature.

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Waldrop, M. The search for alien intelligence: SETI is dead — long live SETI. Nature 475, 442–444 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/475442a

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