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Italian American physicist Enrico Fermi once asked, “if we live in an infinite universe with infinite capacity for life, why haven’t we seen any aliens?” This question is known as the Fermi Paradox – left unanswered until now. Where are all the aliens? Why, they’re in these 10 sci-fi books!…

Richard Garwin, who died on May 13, 2025, at the age of 97, was sometimes called “the most influential scientist you’ve never heard of.” He got his Ph.D. in physics at 21 under Enrico Fermi – a Nobel Prize winner and friend of Einstein’s – who called Garwin “the only…

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The Fermi Paradox seeks to answer the question of where the aliens are. After all, the universe is incredibly old, big and filled with potentially habitable planets.