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Science 20 October 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5798, p. 401
DOI: 10.1126/science.314.5798.401b
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With NASA scaling back funding for astrobiology, scientists are turning to California's Silicon Valley to keep hope alive. The SETI Institute in Mountain View, whose more than two dozen researchers rely on NASA astrobiology grants, plans to create a new privately funded center devoted to the study of life in space. Organizers are looking for up to $6 million over the next 3 years, says SETI's Scott Hubbard, with funds aimed at retaining staff and expanding research at the newly named Carl Sagan Center. The community took a similar approach after lawmakers refused to fund extraterrestrial intelligence research a decade ago.




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