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How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – and aliens

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How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – and aliens

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun

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The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life

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The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life

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US government releases huge batch of UFO files

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Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft snapped pictures of the asteroid Ryugu while flying alongside it two years ago. The spacecraft later returned rock samples from the asteroid to Earth.

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The asteroid Ryugu has all of the main ingredients for life

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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare on Oct. 2, 2014. The solar flare is the bright flash of light on the right limb of the sun. A burst of solar material erupting out into space can be seen just below it. Full 4k full-disk view. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11670/

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SETI may have missed alien signals because of space weather

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Chemistry clues could detect aliens unlike any life on Earth

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Person looking up at starry night at Spiral Jetty, USA. Provider: Alamy Stock Photo Source: www.alamy.com Copyright: Celestine Dagli/Alamy

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Would aliens do physics, or is science a human invention?

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Search for radio signals finds no hint of alien civilisation on K2-18b

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Weird and wonderful fungi should be so much more than sci-fi villains

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Weird and wonderful fungi should be so much more than sci-fi villains

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RNA strand that can almost self-replicate may be key to life's origins

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How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' really is

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Was 2025 the year we found signs of past life on Mars?

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The essential guide to proving we’ve found alien life

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