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Scientific American September 2008 Mark Wolverton |
Digital Upgrades for a Radio Astronomy Revolution Using more sophisticated computers and electronics will vastly increase the resolution, sensitivity and data capacity of the Very Large Array telescope  |
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Monte Ross |
The New Search for E.T. If extraterrestrials are trying to communicate with us, they're probably using lasers, not radio waves.  |
Fast Company Rose Pastore |
The Lonely Quest For Alien Life Just Got A Huge Cash Infusion The alien-hunting program called Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, has just received a promise of $100 million over the next decade from Yuri Milner, a Russian venture capitalist.  |
PC Magazine May 17, 2006 Sebastian Rupley |
Light Up The Sky, ET The search for other Earth-like planets, and extraterrestrial life, is heading in new directions... A small way to detect cancer...  |
National Defense April 2008 Grace V. Jean |
A Makeover for Top-Heavy Navy Ships? If the work of Office of Naval Research scientists comes to fruition, antennas on the tops of ships might one day disappear as radio frequency apertures are integrated into the hulls and superstructures of the ships themselves.  |
The Motley Fool December 7, 2006 Jack Uldrich |
Big Blue Looks for a Big Bang A new partnership with an astronomy organization could spur additional innovation. For IBM investors, this is the type of research that could also pay dividends.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 Ben Ames |
General Dynamics to build antennas for ALMA radio telescope Defense contractors are helping build the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) telescope that will allow astronomers from around the world see galaxies out to the edge of the universe, and stars and planets in their formative stages.  |
Popular Mechanics July 31, 2008 Erik Sofge |
Martian Water Is Red Herring in Fledgling Alien Intelligence Hunt If the chain of evidence on Mars bears out, and NASA's ongoing robotic experiments on the Red Planet eventually yield proof of life, it could open an entirely new field of research for biologists.  |
Popular Mechanics September 18, 2008 Paul Tolme |
High in Andes, World's Next Super Scope Takes Shape: First Look High-tech teams from across the globe are racing to 16,000 ft. in the Chilean Andes to erect ALMA, which will become this planet's largest and most advanced radio telescope when it's completed in 2012.  |
Scientific American November 7, 2005 Mark Alpert |
Red Star Rising Small, cool stars may be hot spots for life  |
Popular Mechanics November 2009 Logan Ward |
10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2009: Kepler Space Telescope The Kepler telescope -- a 15-foot-long, $600 million tool for finding Earth-like planets -- captured its first image in April.  |
Technology Research News April 20, 2005 Eric Smalley |
Telescopes Make Bug-Eye Optics Researchers have developed a prototype artificial compound eye made from three stacked sets of microlenses that form an array of tiny telescopes that could be used for camera phones, infrared vision systems and optical sensors.  |