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Searching for ET Before He Leaves Home

Searching for Alien LifeformsGaithersburg, MD — Visiting aliens may be the stuff of legend, but if a scientific team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is right, we may be able to find extraterrestrial life even before it leaves its home planet — by looking for left- (or right-) handed light. Read more

Searching for Martian Life Forms

Features of early Martian environment and presence of water drive search for life forms Read more

How to Deflect Asteroids and Save Earth

Doomsday Asteroids & CometsRaleigh, NC — You may want to thank David French in advance… Because, in the event that a comet or asteroid comes hurtling toward Earth, he may be the guy responsible for saving the entire planet. Read more

Mars Isn’t Dead After All

Discovery of methane reveals Mars is not a dead planet. Read more

Violations in Space-time Relativity

BLOOMINGTON, IND. — Physicists at Indiana University (IU) have developed a promising new way to identify a possible abnormality in a fundamental building block of Einstein’s theory of relativity known as “Lorentz invariance.” If confirmed, the abnormality would disprove the basic tenet that the laws of physics remain the same for any two objects traveling at a constant speed or rotated relative to one another. Read more

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