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If you nod off, the system would know, dimming to darkness as you do.

Their metabolism will fall as though you were dimming a switch on a lamp at home.

And as you see on this animation, what Kepler is going to detect is just the dimming of the light from the star.

As a result, developments in southern European will remain a key factor determining Europe s course in 2013. The depression will continue, dimming prospects for economic growth throughout the EU and the eurozone.

And what we're looking for is the tiny dimming of light that is caused by a planet passing in front of one of these stars and blocking some of that starlight from getting to us.

How do we find planets even habitable planets around other stars? By looking for tiny dimming as a planet passes in front of its sun, TED Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz and the Kepler mission have found some 1,200 potential new planetary systems. With new techniques, they may even find ones with the right conditions for life.

LONDON The terrorist slaughter in Paris has once again brought into sharp relief the storm clouds gathering over the twenty first century, dimming the bright promise for Europe and the West that the fall of communism opened up. Given dangers that seemingly grow by the day, it is worth pondering what we may be in for.

The depression will continue, dimming prospects for economic growth throughout the EU and the eurozone. The gap between the rich north and the crisis ridden south will widen, highlighting their contradictory interests and thus exacerbating Europe s tendency toward separation, primarily between the north and the south, but also between the eurozone and the rest of the EU.