Sentences with phrase «extraterrestrial radio signals»

In collaboration with astrophysicists, meteorologists, and medical ethicists, Manglano - Ovalle harnesses extraterrestrial radio signals, weather patterns, and biological code, transforming pure data into digital video projections and sculptures realized through computer rendering.

Now an adult (perfectly played by Jodie Foster), this everyday girl has worked hard to achieve her dreams and is a scientist searching for extraterrestrial radio signals.

In 1960, astronomer Frank Drake (father of Science News writer Nadia Drake) was among the first to listen for extraterrestrial radio signals.

Zane Zaminsky (Charlie Sheen), a radio astronomer working for SETI, discovers an extraterrestrial radio signal from Wolf 336, a star 14 light years from Earth.

Not exact matches

News leaked this weekend of a spike in radio signals coming from a sun - like star that could fit the profile for an intelligent, extraterrestrial source.

With scans for alien radio signals drawing a blank, three teams are now searching for signs of extraterrestrial engineering, as Stephen Battersby reports

Breakthrough Listen's search for radio signals of extraterrestrial origin is using a new telescope at Green Bank that's vastly bigger and more sensitive.

Once focused mainly on detecting radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations, the institute now employs scientists studying many factors important for the existence of alien life — from Kepler team members who are detecting and characterizing exoplanetary systems, to astrobiologists searching for life in the most extreme environments on Earth and in the solar system's exotic nooks and crannies.

Its job will be to scan largely unexplored radio frequencies, hunting for the first stars and galaxies and, potentially, signals of extraterrestrial intelligence.

Saints: SETI Donors After eight months of inactivity, the 42 radio antennas of the Allen Telescope Array in Hat Creek, California, resumed their search for signals from extraterrestrial life last December.

Up until now, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, has primarily involved listening for radio signals deliberately or inadvertently sent by alien cultures into space.

In the 1990s, University of California, Berkeley, scientists began listening for messages from extraterrestrials in radio signals captured from space.

China's awesome Five - hundred - meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, the world's largest of its kind, will be able to peer further into the past than previous radio telescopes to gather weaker and more distant signals that promise to provide clues to the origins and evolution of the universe, probe gravitational waves and dark matter, and listen for transmissions from extraterrestrial civilizations.

Congress cut off funding to listen for radio signals from extraterrestrials in 1993, and these days much of the research is supported at the whim of Paul Allen, the cofounder of Microsoft.

The most widely celebrated use of the technology is the SETI@home project, which analyzes radio signals from the Arecibo telescope in search of signs of extraterrestrial life.

Researchers with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) looked for radio signals coming from the star's galaxy (which could be a sign of alien life) but failed to find any.

Yet 40 years of intensive searching for extraterrestrial intelligence have yielded nothing: no radio signals, no credible spacecraft sightings, no close encounters of any kind.

A strange signal detected by a Russian radio telescope has, once again, thrown the search for extraterrestrial intelligences into the limelight.