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A Simple New Chip Could Spot Signs of Alien Life. It's Already Passed Its First Test.
If there is extraterrestrial life out there, it's certainly done a great job of staying hidden so far (at least as far as the official scientific consensus goes).
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If there is extraterrestrial life out there, it's certainly done a great job of staying hidden so far (at least as far as the official scientific consensus goes). International researchers led by a team from the University of Osaka in Japan have now developed a new electrical technique for spotting signs of life outside of Earth's atmosphere – and it promises to be simpler than current approaches to alien detection.
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