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SETI@home project celebrates 10th anniversary, though no ETs

SETI@home project celebrates 10th anniversary, though no ETs

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's largest and longest-running volunteer computing project, SETI@home, celebrates its tenth anniversary this month with 140,000 participants and 235,000 computers powering the search ...


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SETI@home completes a decade of ET search

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created May 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (32) | comments 9

The SETI@home project, which has involved the worldwide public in a search for radio-wave evidence of life outside Earth, marks its 10th anniversary on May 17, 2009.





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SETI@home ramps up to analyze more data in search of extraterrestrial intelligence

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 02, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (17) | comments 1

The longest-running search for radio signals from alien civilizations is getting a burst of new data from an upgraded Arecibo telescope, which means the SETI@home project needs more desktop computers to help crunch the data.


Home computers to help researchers better understand universe

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created Oct 24, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Want to help unravel the mysteries of the universe" A new distributed computing project designed by a University of Illinois researcher allows people around the world to participate in cutting-edge cosmology research by donating ...


Computer Idle? Now You Can Donate Its Time to Find a Cure for Major Diseases

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created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Not using your computer at the moment? You can now donate your computer's idle time to cutting-edge biomedical research aimed at finding a cure for HIV, Parkinson's, arthritis, and breast cancer.


Stardust@home launches today

Stardust@home launches today

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 01, 2006 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

On your marks, dust hunters! The University of California, Berkeley's Stardust@home project - a needle-in-a-haystack search for interstellar dust that's open to anyone with a computer - gets off the ground ...


Grid computing, the new commodity

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a platform for trading computing resources that allows the selling and buying of standardised computing resources. In the process, they could make computing a utility like ...


SETI Sets Its Sights On M Dwarfs

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created Nov 21, 2005 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists have been searching actively for signs of intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations for nearly half a century. Their main approach has been to point radio telescopes toward target stars and to "listen" for electronic ...


Hunting for new zeolites

Hunting for new zeolites

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

In all the world, there are about 200 types of zeolite, a compound of silicon, aluminum and oxygen that gives civilization such things as laundry detergent, kitty litter and gasoline. But thanks to computations ...


Participant Total for Grassroots Astrophysics Project Einstein@Home to Exceed 55,000 On Einstein's Birthday

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created Mar 11, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Einstein@Home distributed computing project is enlisting a rapidly growing army of computer users in a search for Einstein’s elusive gravitational waves. Only three weeks after its February 19th kick-off, the Einstein@Home gra ...


Public to look for dust grains in Stardust detectors

Public to look for dust grains in Stardust detectors

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created Jan 10, 2006 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Astronomy buffs who jumped at the chance to use their home computers in the SETI@home search for intelligent life in the universe will soon be able to join an Internet-based search for dust grains originating ...


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Rare Scottish mineral may indicate life on Mars

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created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (22) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) scientists is looking for clues about life on Mars in an earthy clay mineral found only in Aberdeenshire in Scotland.



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