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Scientists suggest protocol for messaging to aliens

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1974, humans broadcast the first message targeted at extraterrestrial life using the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. The message, which was aimed at the globular star cluster M13 ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 04, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (42) | comments 140 | with audio podcast feature

Solved: The mystery of the nanoscale crop circles

(PhysOrg.com) -- Almost three years ago a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) was performing an experiment in which layers of gold mere ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Research group proposes first system for assessing the odds of life on other worlds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Within the next few years, the number of planets discovered in orbits around distant stars will likely reach several thousand or more. But even as our list of these newly discovered "exoplanets" ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Bacteria can grow under extreme gravity: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that bacteria is capable of growing under gravity more than 400,000 times that of Earth and gives evidence that the th ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (22) | comments 43 | with audio podcast report

Delayed legacy of invasive species

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers in Europe has urged governments to introduce tougher controls of all international trade that could result in the introduction of non-native species. They say the full ...

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 22, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

NASA creates buzz with 'extraterrestrial' announcement

The US space agency has created a buzz with its announcement of a press conference Thursday to discuss a scientific finding that relates to the hunt for life beyond the planet Earth.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (35) | comments 41

Mars was Wet, but was it Warm?

Mars is frozen today, but when it was young there may have been liquid water on its surface. What does the latest evidence indicate about the ancient martian climate? Understanding the past environment of ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 31, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Seeing the Closest Aliens Will Take Centuries

As telescopes become more advanced, we’ll be able to see more details about planets orbiting other stars - including indications that those planets have life. However, it would probably take many centuries ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 29, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 30 | with audio podcast

Getting to know the Goldilocks planet

NASA's Kepler spacecraft is discovering a veritable avalanche of alien worlds.  Recent finds include planets with double suns, massive "super-Earths" and "hot Jupiters," and a miniature solar system.  ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scattered light could reveal alien atmospheres

The light scattered off distant worlds could help reveal details about their atmospheres that no other method could uncover, scientists find.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tidal forces could squeeze out planetary water

Alien planets might experience tidal forces powerful enough to remove all their water, leaving behind hot, dry worlds like Venus, researchers said.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

High planetary tilt lowers odds for life?

Highly-tilted worlds would have extreme seasons, subjecting life to alternating periods of scorching and subzero temperatures. This could make the development of all but hardiest, simplest creatures a long ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Earth's cloudy past could reveal exoplanet details

The pattern of clouds on Earth is largely determined by the arrangement of the continents below. Now, astronomers are modeling the clouds at different periods in Earth's past to better understand what alien ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

ASU cosmologist suggests studying moon for alien artifacts

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you were part of a team sent to explore an unknown planet; and that planet had a natural orbiting moon, wouldn’t it make sense to use that moon as a base camp or remote observation ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (36) | comments 163 | with audio podcast weblog

No alien visits or UFO coverups, White House says

The White House has responded to two petitions asking the US government to formally acknowledge that aliens have visited Earth and to disclose to any intentional withholding of government interactions with ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (15) | comments 92 | with audio podcast