Imagine a solar system, so perfect that it should be teaming with intelligent life. I would like nothing more than to go and check it out myself but sadly I have to get ready and go to work. Boo-hoo.

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https://www.sciencealert.com/perfectly-synchronized-planetary-system-probed-for-signs-of-alien-technology

Perfectly Synchronized Planetary System Probed For Signs of Alien Technology

Some 100 light-years from the Solar System dwells the most mathematically perfect planetary system we've ever seen.

ScienceAlert
Forget Alien Megastructures. New Study Says We Need to Look For 'Service Worlds'.

In 1960, Freeman Dyson proposed how advanced civilizations could create megastructures that enclosed their system, allowing them to harness all of their star's energy and multiplying the habitable space they could occupy.

ScienceAlert

Weird Science News: I read this article twice and it seems like the title is backwards. Using lasers they can extract, metallic, hydrogen, and diamonds from simple plastic.

In the decades to come, this might be a solution to pollution all over the planet and provide superconductors that rival anything in production today.

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https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/metallic-hydrogen-and-diamonds-may-have-been-made-from-plastics/4017483.article

Metallic hydrogen and diamonds may have been made from plastics

A combination of x-ray diffraction experiments and simulations suggests that an intense laser can transform polystyrene

Chemistry World

“A couple of planets might host life in Alpha Centauri, but we'll probably have to go there to find out for sure.”

It’s not a matter of if I would go if asked… it’s a matter of which fedoras I can bring with me and who else in my family will go, too.

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https://bigthink.com/hard-science/life-alpha-centauri/

The hunt for life in Alpha Centauri

This oddball system of three stars might be our best chance at finding nearby life in the Universe. But Alpha Centauri is a long way away.

Big Think