Researchers say a newly-developed “Biofinder” tool could be a game-changer in helping astrobiologists in the search for extraterrestrial life. Like the fictional scanning devices used in Star Trek to search for signs of alien life, the new tool can even distinguish between types of organisms it finds and can search for those signs from across a great distance, covering a large search area all at once. This, in addition to its remarkable ability to detect signs of ancient biological organisms as many as 50 million years after they died… (READ MORE)

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