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UC Berkeley has announced that the volunteer computing part of SETI@home will stop distributing work and go into hibernation on March 31. Two reasons were cited for this action: 1) Scientifically, ...

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Over the weekend, the people who manage the SETI@home distributed-computing project announced it would be going on hiatus at the end of March. The project was one of the first efforts that ...

Owen Johnson receives funding from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. Is there life beyond Earth? The question has turned out to be one of the hardest to answer in science. Despite the seemingly ...

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Seth claims to have developed an interest in extraterrestrial life at the tender age of ten, when he first picked up a book about the Solar System. This innocent beginning eventually led to a degree ...