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Alien technosignatures are more likely to be found on oxygen-rich exoplanets. Here’s why

Alien hunters should look for technological life on planets with high oxygen abundance in their atmospheres, according to new research that aims to advance the search for technosignatures from extraterrestrial civilizations. Amedeo Balbi, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata in Italy, and Adam Frank, professor of physics and… Read More »

Scientists have been searching for superconductors for more than a century, but they haven’t yet found one that works at room temperature – 3 essential reads

If you haven’t heard of superconductors before 2023, you probably know what they are now. Researchers were puzzled at the beginning of the year by claims that superconductors were functional at room temperature, but none of these were proven, and a paper by researchers at the University of Rochester was retracted by the journal Nature… Read More »