SIGNS OF LIFE.
The article profiles astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who analyzes photons from the light of distant stars in an effort to determine whether there is evidence of extraterrestrial life. A discussion of Kaltenegger's involv...
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