Avi Loeb's latest Scientific American blog, "Scientific discoveries substantiate our awe when faced with the richness and universality of the laws of nature. But science falls short of explaining this natural order and why it exists in the first place."
“Not all discoveries come from new observations,” says Pete Worden, in a comment referring to original thinking as applied to an existing dataset. Worden is executive director of the Breakthrough Initiatives program, which includes Breakthrough Listen, an ambitious attempt to use SETI techniques to search for signs of technological activity in the universe. Note that last word: The targets Breakthrough Listen examines do extend to about one million stars in the...
"Interstellar distances are vast. It takes light four years and three months to cross the distance to the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, which hosts a habitable planet, Proxima b."
Essay written by Avie Loeb for Scientific American, "They’re nurtured by informal dialogues in environments where mistakes are tolerated and critical thinking is encouraged"... Read more about Where Do Ideas Come from?
"Atronomers are proposing a new model for the invisible material that makes up most of the universe: It is possible that a fraction of dark matter particles may have a tiny electrical charge."
Pierre Christian (Harvard PhD, 2018) delivers his Keto Award talk at the ITC Luncheon on May 3, 2018 "Detecting gravitational lensing of gravitational waves"
"The first challenge in the hunt for life elsewhere in our universe is to decide where to look. In a new study, two scientists examine whether Sun-like stars or low-mass M dwarfs are the best bet for hosting exoplanets with detectable life."
Avi Loeb's lated Scientific American blog post explores the idea that, "A civilization in the habitable zone of a dwarf star like Proxima Centauri might find it hard to get into interstellar space with conventional rockets."
![are the best targets in the search for primitive life. [NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech]](https://astronomy.fas.harvard.edu/sites/projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/styles/os_square_100_100/public/fig1-10-702x336.jpg?m=1525273270&itok=gFjDqFkl "Where Should We Look for Life?")
