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Tag Archives: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Looking for life? Look for pollution.
Four-thousand years on Earth and we’ve a lot of dirt to show for it. Why would an advanced alien civilization be any different? That’s the motivation that three astrophysicists from Harvard University have used to determine that powerful telescopes could look for signs … Continue reading
Our universe, the poor man’s accelerator
That cosmic inflation may have happened at a higher-than-anticipated energy means physicists have access to the young universe through astronomical data. Continue reading