#  Pollution a sign of life? 

 





July 24, 2014

 

 

Summer student Henry Lin co-authors a paper with Origins Team member Avi Loeb and Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad (Smithsonian Observatory scientist) that suggest detecting CFC’s can be a used as a biomarker for detecting signs of life on earth-like exoplanets.

Read the Boston Globe story here: <http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/science/2014/07/24/another-way-look-for-intelligent-life-detect-pollution/wsSIAioXuY8lx3HMvVTIYL/story.html>

Read the New York Times article here: [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/22/science/space/more-eyes-on-the-skies.html?\_r=0](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/22/science/space/more-eyes-on-the-skies.html?_r=0)

Read the full paper here: <http://iopscience.iop.org/2041-8205/792/1/L7>



 

 

 



 

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