{"id":3926984,"date":"2026-07-14T20:01:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T01:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/are-we-missing-the-universes-noosignatures\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T20:01:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T01:01:28","slug":"are-we-missing-the-universes-noosignatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/are-we-missing-the-universes-noosignatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we missing the universe&#8217;s &#8216;noosignatures?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Astrobiology has long been split into two camps: a search for &#8220;biosignatures&#8221; and a search for &#8220;intelligence.&#8221; These look for very different things, but they also leave a huge gap in between. It took 3.5 billion years for us to go from the first microbe to a civilization that sent radio waves into the cosmos. Detecting life in between those stages is a relatively untouched aspect of astrobiology\u2014which is also the focal point of a new paper, &#8220;Signs and Signatures of Intelligence,&#8221; available on the arXiv preprint server, by astrobiologist Julia DeMarines.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-universe-noosignatures.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astrobiology has long been split into two camps: a search for &#8220;biosignatures&#8221; and a search for &#8220;intelligence.&#8221; These look for very different things, but they also leave a huge gap in between. It took 3.5 billion years for us to go from the first microbe to a civilization that sent radio waves into the cosmos. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}