Laurance Doyle is a principal investigator for the Center for the Study of Life in the Universe at the SETI Institute, where he has been since 1987, and is a member of the NASA Kepler Mission Science Team. Doyle’s research has focused on the formation and detection of extrasolar planets. He has also theorized how patterns in animal communication, like those of social cetaceans, relate to humans.
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Bees rely on celestial navigation using the Sun's location when communicating with other bees.
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This is a short addition to the four-part series on Quantum Astronomy previously written for SPACE.com.

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Thousands of new exoplanets may need a new naming system.
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Sponges may have been key to the rise of intelligent life on Earth and in space.
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Like the venerable SETI@home, PlanetQuest will enable users to discover real planets around other stars using four different detection techniques.

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By Laurance R. Doyle Published
We had heard of an ancient astronomy site in this region made up of basalt pillars that were magnetic, so needed to be remeasured using something other than compasses.

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