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February 2008
- Sky's the Limit in Powerful New Searches for Alien Life
  
  newser | Christian Science Monitor | Feb 21, 08 4:27 AM CST
  
  Powerful new instruments will help scientists in their search for extra-terrestrial life, the Christian Science Monitor writes. New telescopes will make it possible for the SETI Institute to scan millions of star systems for alien radio signals. Only a thousand have been analyzed in detail so far, but the institute hopes to get more new data in the next two years than it has collected in the last half-century. More »
  
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  space • astronomy • extraterrestrial life • aliens • exoplanet • radio telescope • telescopes • SETI
December 2007
- Volunteers Put PCs to Work for Science
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Dec 25, 07 2:44 PM CST
  
  While you sleep, your home PC can forge new worlds in science. More researchers across the nation are embracing the concept of volunteer computing—in which they harness the power of otherwise sleeping computers to speed up the mathematical grunt work of their projects, the Chicago Tribune reports. The concept originated about eight years ago, and now hundreds of thousands of PCs are used this way. More »
  
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  Internet • SETI

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