August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... US$100 million for a ten-year renewed search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Alongside Milner was Prof Stephen Hawking who served as senior science advisor for the Initiatives until his death in 2018. SETI research began...
24 June 2016
Will Brexit Lead to Spexit?
... leaving the EU. According to an open letter published in The Times and signed by 150 Cambridge academics, including Stephen Hawking, leaving the EU would be a “disaster for U.K. science and universities.” One of the main concerns in research and...
30 September 2019
On the Future: Prospects for Humanity
... by providing access to ‘Planet B’, he is clear in stating his disagreement with the likes of Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking: “We’ve got to solve these problems here”, he says. “Coping with climate change [is] a doddle compared with terraforming...
