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We’ve Been Looking for Aliens for 70 Years. We've Been Doing It Wrong All Along
Season 11
Episode 29
We’ve been looking for messages from the stars ever since Frank Drake pointed the Green Bank radio telescope at Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridany 65 years ago. He saw nothing that couldn’t be explained by natural causes. Nor have the much more extensive SETI surveys conducted since. So, maybe there are no alien signals to see. Or maybe we need to update how we search for them.
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The 2026 Nobel in Physics went to Dr. Halzen for turning Antarctica into a neutrino telescope.
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Can adding every positive whole number really give you -1/12?
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It’s believed empty space can be crystalized and we may have observed this for the first time.
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Gigantic black holes existed in a cosmic eyeblink after the Big Bang. That should be impossible.
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A decade later, a leading theory may finally explain Tabby’s Star, the galaxy’s weirdest star.
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LIGO may have found an impossible black hole, hinting at primordial relics from the Big Bang.
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DESI and DES studied dark energy. Together, what can they tell us?
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Could sending a quantum twin across the galaxy make you both old and young at the same time?
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It's possible that an event horizon is forming right behind and you won't know until its too late.
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Physicists hope Planck stars can save us from black hole singularities and paradoxes.
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Galaxies older than the universe? Webb's findings keep defying our best explanations.
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Earth's core: solid or liquid? Yes — we know more about distant galaxies than our own interior.