"Radio search for ET draws a blank." Nothing nearby, anyway.
The scientists looked at 800 nearby stars with no evidence of a signal from ET. They say they have learned a lot, and plan another search next year.
The last star scrutinised by Project Phoenix - the most powerful search for intelligent life in space ever carried out - was HD 169882 - a fairly ordinary star lying just 88 light-years away.
The result was that no signals indicative of an intelligent origin are coming from it, at least during the time it was observed.
So if there are any aliens on a planet circling that star then perhaps they are not interested in signalling, or are doing it in a way we cannot yet detect.