Berkeley Astronomers Enlist Internet Users to Seek Alien Life

In hopes of finding extraterrestrial life, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley are preparing to take a closer-than-ever look at radio signals from outer space. And they want your help.

A project sponsored by the SETI Institute -- the acronym stands for "search for extraterrestrial intelligence" -- will analyze radio waves from space using distributed computing, a process that takes a large

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