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NPR's Scott Simon asks Kathleen Rooney about her book, "Man Overboard!," and about finding the energy to overcome doubt.
A Harvard University cosmologist who has suggested alien life forms could be sailing into the solar system disguised as meteors is leading the Trump administration’s secretive new scientific advisory ...
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Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House ...
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