Alien hunters devise world's smallest microphone

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/15755.html

Alien hunters devise world's smallest microphone
By: Lucy Sherriff
Posted: 02/01/2001 at 15:51 GMT
Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory claim to have devised the most sensitive listening device ever. Designed to enable
robot explorers to listen out for life on other planets, the tiny microphone could theoretically detect the sound of a single cell
growing. 


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