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In a recent study, Dr. Janice Bishop of the SETI Institute, along with postdoctoral researcher Adomas Valantinas from Brown University, propose that Mars' characteristic red hue is primarily due to ferrihydrite—a water-rich iron oxide mineral—rather than the previously assumed hematite. In this week's #SETILive, planetary scientist Beth Johnson chatted with Dr. Bishop about the evidence for ferrihydrite and what it could have meant for life on Mars.

#ICYMI: Space is the Case

On this week's #SETILive, SETI AIR Director Bettina Forget chatted with visual artist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst Martin Wilner about how he weaves connections between the human mind, machine learning, consciousness, and our ideas about extraterrestrial life. Wilner's ongoing project, The Case Histories, included researchers such as Jill Tarter, Seth Shostak, and Franck Marchis.

Watch the full interview: youtube.com/live/sZMC4m0Ju5k

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#ICYMI: Looking for Lunar Anomalies Using Automated Methods

Scientists have developed an automated system that quickly identifies scientifically significant images from LRO data, making it the first anomaly detector for planetary imagery. On this week's #SETILive, Franck Marchis chatted with authors Adam Lesnikowski and Daniel Angerhausen about this revolutionary method and its implications for future discoveries. youtube.com/live/DZxDcORRc2A

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#ICYMI - SETI Live: Earth Detecting Earth

Findings of a recent study revealed that radio signals, such as planetary radar emissions from the former Arecibo Observatory, are Earth’s most detectable technosignatures, potentially visible from up to 12,000 light-years away. Simon Steel chatted with lead author Sofia Sheikh about the research's findings and their implications for the search for technosignatures.

Watch here: youtube.com/live/Od-1V9ZR2Kc

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In case you missed it: On Saturday, another gravitational-wave candidate was observed.

Both @LIGO instruments and the Virgo detector identified the candidate, called S250104v.

If it is of astrophysical origin, it most likely comes from the merger of black holes at a (luminosity) distance of 17.7 billion light-years.

ℹ️ gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S [@LIGO GraceDB]
ℹ️ gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/38812 [GCN Circular]

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«Steve Jobs der Umweltwissenschaft» verliert Job an der ETH

Der Ökologe Thomas Crowther ist nach nicht näher beschriebenen Vorwürfen von 8 verschiedenen Personen freigestellt. 2019 hatte eine von ihm geleitete Science-Studie zum CO2-Einlagerungspotential von Aufforstungen weltweite Beachtung gefunden und Kontroversen unter Wissenschaftler*innen ausgelöst

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watson · Thomas Crowther: ETH-Klimaforscher verliert Job nach VorwürfenBy Raphael Bühlmann