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[ Watch the Podcast: The Search For Alien Life With Guest Dr. Eric Mamajek (Part 3): Your Universe Today Podcast ] Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A group of astronomers have determined through NASA Kepler mission data that less than one in a million stars in the Milky Way galaxy could have intelligent life. The University of California, Berkeley team used the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to look for intelligent radio signals from planets around 86 of...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online One of the biggest sticking points in the scientific debate over the story of human evolution and eventual diaspora from Africa has been how it is told from two opposite sides of the scientific spectrum—the clinically-based genetics community and the field-based anthropological community. The debate has caused some sniping over the years due to conflicting theories. But now, a group of geneticists from Stanford University set out to...