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Has the answer to life's origins been hiding in our cells all along?

Life

Has the answer to life's origins been hiding in our cells all along?

The surprising discovery of mysterious blobs inside our cells is revolutionising our understanding of how life works, and how it got started

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The one film to watch before seeing Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day

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The one film to watch before seeing Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day

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The book jacket of Togetherness by Rowan Hooper

Life

New ��˾þ� recommends Togetherness, a radical new view of life

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

Life

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

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

Space

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

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Space

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.

Space

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/

Space

SETI may have missed alien signals because of space weather

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Space

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

Physics

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

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the universe in a completely different way than we do. Physicist Daniel Whiteson explores what that could tell us about physics and ourselves

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Space

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

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Life

New ��˾þ� recommends The Big Oyster: History on the half shell

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Life

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

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Chemistry

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

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