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Radio telescopes, like the revolutionary new Allen Telescope Array at UC Berkeley's Hat Creek Radio Observatory, collect photons in the radio spectrum, then focus those waves onto an electronic receiver to detect faint signals. Of its planned 350 antenna dishes, 42 are now operating. When completed, it will be one of the world's most powerful telescope arrays.

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Seth Shostak/SETI Institute

Dean's Message:
Berkeley and braving the new flat world

Sharing the sky
An engineer's quiet search for extraterrestrial intelligent life
by David Pescovitz

Tinkering with the biological clock
Bioengineer shines new light on the other stem cells
by Gordy Slack

America's renaissance in nuclear power
Next-generation nuclear reactors strive for radical simplicity
by Mark Williams

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