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NEWS ABOUT: SETI

SETI stories: 6 news summaries
Interview

Aliens May Be Watching
Our Soaps: Expert 



Life 'definitely' out there, expert says, but very hard to find

Jun 13, 09 6:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Aliens are out there, and they may be watching Survivor, says a premier scientist searching for extraterrestrial life. “We are definitely not alone,” SETI project founder Frank Drake tells Der Spiegel. He worries about TV radio transmitters shooting human entertainment into space, greeting... More »

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entertainment • television • extraterrestrial life • aliens • SETI

ANALYSIS

 ET Seekers Win Big Boost 

Fringe movement attracts big donors and wide interest as its goes mainstream

Feb 13, 09 5:58 PM CST
(Newser) - The truth is out there, and now there’s funding to find it: Everyone from Bill Gates to Cameron Diaz is embracing the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), a movement transitioning from X-Files territory to the mainstream, the Wall Street Journal says. One astronomer left last week's prestigious TED conference... More »

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astronomy • space exploration • space • extraterrestrial life • SETI • The X-Files

If Another Earth Is Out There, Kepler Will Find it

NASA telescope designed to look for life-sustaining planets

Feb 11, 09 2:18 PM CST
(Newser) - If there's truly no place like home, then NASA's new Kepler mission will help scientists prove it. The space telescope, set to launch March 5, will scan the skies for planets with the approximate size and temperature range of Earth. Matches could be candidates for extraterrestrial life; if Kepler finds... More »

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NASA • planet • SETI • extrasolar planets • Kepler spacecraft • space telescope

How to Detect Earthquakes From Your Desk

A SETI-like network of laptops can trump seismometers

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... More »

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laptop • computer network • SETI • earthquake • seismology

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

Pioneering technology
rachets up ET hunt

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... More »

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astronomy • space • extraterrestrial life • aliens • exoplanet • radio telescope • telescopes • SETI • ET

Volunteers Put PCs
to Work for Science

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

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... More »

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Internet • SETI • volunteer computing • Rosetta@home • Folding@home

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