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Why Searching For Aliens Is Good For Business

The SETI Institute has stopped listening for aliens, a casualty of government budget cuts. The business community and private donors should pony up. Here's why it's not as crazy as it sounds.READ»

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NASA Finds Amino Acids on Impossible Meteorite, Improves Chances E.T. Exists

Different from the evolving fuss about NASA's "alien" arsenic-based life forms found on Earth, a new discovery of amino acids--life's building blocks--in a meteorite born of a collision between two asteroids bumps up the chances of finding E.T. READ»

E.T. Out There, But Also Here on Earth, Says NASA: He's a California Microbe

A microbe found in a Californian lake is alive but its DNA includes a different material to everything else living on Earth: Arsenic. It's proof positive, says NASA, that E.T. is out there.READ»

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iFive: NASA's Alien Intrigue, BBC to Hit iPad, Google Tweaks Algorithm, Groupon is a Bargain, Times Paywall a Big Flop

Thursday's here, full of interest and intrigue. Here's a quick take on the first news to hit today:READ»

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E.T. For Real: Cells From Red Rain Can Reproduce, May Be From "Out There"

In 2001 red-stained rain fell over India. Scientists found oddly non-Earth-like cells in it. Controversy ensued. Now it's been revealed the cells can reproduce. Is E.T. already here?READ»