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How to Detect Earthquakes From Your Desk

A SETI-like network of laptops can trump seismometers

Economist Economist Sep 28, 08 6:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Seismologists have found a way to harness the power of a built-in feature of many laptops and create a new wide-ranging earthquake-detection system, the Economist reports. The "Quake-Catcher Network" capitalizes on laptops' accelerometers, little devices that detect when the computer is falling or shaken, to provide widespread—and highly sensitive—recordings of the earth's vibrations. More »

More about:  earthquake • laptop • computer network • seismology • SETI

Sky's the Limit in Powerful
New Searches for Alien Life

Pioneering technology
rachets up ET hunt

Christian Science Monitor Christian Science Monitor Feb 21, 08 4:27 AM CST
(Newser) - 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 »

More about:  space • astronomy • extraterrestrial life • aliens • exoplanet • radio telescope • SETI • telescopes

Volunteers Put PCs
to Work for Science

'Volunteer Computing' creates quick – and cheap – supercomputers for science

Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Dec 25, 07 2:44 PM CST
(Newser) - 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 »

More about:  Internet • SETI

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