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The search for alien life most often has scientists looking for biosignatures in places like Saturn’s moons. But now researchers with Cornell University are looking for them at the heart of our galaxy, using new methods of possible communication with possible intelligent life living there.

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00:00The search for alien life most often has scientists looking for biosignatures in places like Saturn's moons.
00:10But now researchers with Cornell University are looking for them at the heart of our galaxy,
00:15using new methods of communication with possible intelligent life living there.
00:19It's all part of the breakthrough list in investigation for periodic spectral signals, or BLIPS for short.
00:25And it's looking to discover any radio emissions coming from the center of the Milky Way,
00:29then a way to boost them in the hunt for intelligent extraterrestrials.
00:32So why the center of the Milky Way?
00:34Well, due to the dust clouds present there, it was very difficult to see until recently.
00:38It's also a very noisy area with regards to signals,
00:41which while it can be loud and difficult to isolate individual data streams,
00:44it also means there's a higher number of stars, meaning a higher number of potentially habitable worlds,
00:49likely many we haven't even discovered yet.
00:52The researchers have now tested their fast folding algorithm, which can identify periodic signals,
00:56like the ones we would expect to come from an extraterrestrial communication.
01:00And while they haven't found any possible alien transmissions just yet,
01:03they proved the method works on pulsar stars,
01:06meaning now we might finally have the tools necessary to identify and isolate signals
01:11coming from alien civilizations.
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