VLA Photo: Credit: NSF/NSF NRAO/AUI/B.Foott This white paper highlights the work that is needed to anticipate the challenges and societal impacts of a possible technosignature detection. We recommend practical steps
VLA Photo: Credit: NSF/NSF NRAO/AUI/B.Foott This white paper highlights the work that is needed to anticipate the challenges and societal impacts of a possible technosignature detection. We recommend practical steps
Marine invertebrate extinction rate (grey circles) and the large igneous provinces which correlate with major extinction events (labelled, after Clapham and Renne78). — Nature Communications In the first and only
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GFAJ-1 grown on arsenic. — NASA Keith’s note: Science magazine is retracting a NASA paper they published 15 years ago – “A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead
Best-fit model to an empirical transmission spectrum of the cloudless Earth in units of scale height, H (adapted from (40)). Different colors indicate the contributions from various molecules. Despite its
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