
The truth is out there – and now budding alien hunters are being given the chance to sign up for a crash course in close encounters. Edinburgh University is to offer a new course exploring how to detect alien life on Earth-like planets, and the implications if contact is made. An Introduction to Astrobiology and the Search for Extra-terrestrial Life will begin this autumn and is expected to be widely subscribed to.
The lectures, part of a major new drive in online teaching, will be free and run for five weeks with students from across the globe expected to be attracted to the subject. Today, Edinburgh was announced as the first university in the UK to join the Coursera consortium, an organisation set up by senior academics at Stanford University to provide free online undergraduate level courses to anyone who wants to access them....
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