The search for life in outer space hit a snag earlier this week when the SETI@Home project ran into some very terrestrial problems. A group of vandals apparently disrupted cables in the SETI@Home ...

For more than 60 years, scientists have been searching the cosmos for possible signs of radio transmission that would indicate the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). In that time, the ...

The University of California, Berkeley has called it quits on the SETI@home project after a 21-year distributed computing effort to Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in outer space. The ...

It's always nice to feel useful, even if not much comes of it in the end. The millions of people who, over the past two decades, donated their home computers' processing power to the SETI@home search ...

Pioneering distributed computing project SETI@home has announced it’s shutting down “the volunteer computing part” of its search for alien life after more than 20 years. The project will go into ...

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