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Published online 12 March 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030310-6
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Alien hunters take a closer look
SETI@home team to follow up most promising leads.
After nearly four Earth years - and more than a million years of computing time - astronomers are about to follow up the most promising results from the SETI@home search for alien life.
Later this month, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, will use the world's largest radio telescope, the Arecibo in Puerto Rico, to look at the 150 most promising signals from outer space, as analysed on desktop computers.
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