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  • Tech-crash threatens to take down SETI@home

    The future of SETI@home, an Internet-based distributed computing experiment to find radio signals from intelligent alien life-forms, is in serious danger as academics behind the project face a funding crisis.

  • SETI@home director denies funding crisis

    SETI@home director David Anderson has spoken out to calm fears sparked by the project's chief scientist, Dan Werthimer, that the project is under threat of closing.

  • SETI@home begs for "last resort" funding

    The director of SETI@home - a high profile distributed computing experiment to find extraterrestrial life - has made a plea to his users for help in securing funding, despite denying late last month that the project was facing a cash crisis.

  • SETI@home needs more PC power

    Despite successfully running for many years, astronomers behind the SETI@home project are looking for more computing power as they ramp up the amount of data they look at. And they want to borrow your system's spare time to do it.

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