The depression will continue, dimming prospects for economic growth throughout the EU and the eurozone.

In China there is some indication for a renewed dimming, after the stabilization in the 1990s.

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.

The non binding political commitments reached in principle at Copenhagen already have run into controversy as well as varying interpretations, dimming the future of the so called Copenhagen Accord, an ad hoc, face saving agreement stitched together at the eleventh hour to cover up the summit s failure.

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.