Doomsday 2012 Fact Sheet

There is widespread and unnecessary fear of doomsday on December 21, 2012. Some people worry about a Maya prophesy of the end of the world, others fear a variety of astronomical threats such as collision with a rogue planet.

NASA's Curiosity Rover: Four Months on Mars

SETI Talk ( Video ) - Ashwin Vasavada, Deputy Scientist of the MSL Mission, Jet Propulsion Lab, discusses the rover operations to date, along with some initial scientific results regarding the geology, mineralogy, and environmental conditions at Gale Crater on Mars.

Planetary Lake Lander Team Heads to Chile

Research scientist, Dr. Nathalie Cabrol and her team head to Chile to collect environmental and biological data in and around Laguna Negra to study how the Lake Lander probe senses its environment.

Big Picture Science Radio Show: Doomsday Live, Part 2

If there is only one show you hear about the end of the world, let it be this one. Recorded before a live audience at the Computer History Museum on October 27th, 2012, this two-part special broadcast of Big Picture Science separates fact from fiction in doomsday prediction. In this second episode: a global viral pandemic … climate change … and the threat of assimilation by super-intelligent machines.

The Algorithmic Origins of Life

SETI Talk ( Video ) - In this talk, Dr. Sara Walker proposes that the transition from non-life to life may correspond to a fundamental shift in causal structure, where information gains direct, and context-dependent, causal efficacy over matter, a transition that may be mapped to a nontrivial distinction in how living systems process information.

On the long term orbital evolution of the natural satellites

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OUR STORY: The SETI Institute

Hear from the father of SETI, Frank Drake and Co-founder of the SETI Institute and TED Prize winner, Jill Tarter about why the search of the cosmos is vitally important - in some surprising ways.