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I want to believe: An astronomer's view of aliens

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I want to believe: An astronomer's view of aliens

Astronomer Chris Lintott dreams of a meeting with life from another world and confronts the prospect that we might be alone.

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Fetal sharks may look for food by swimming around inside their mothers

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Fetal sharks may look for food by swimming around inside their mothers

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Lewis Dartnell: Astrobiology – the search for alien life

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Lewis Dartnell: Astrobiology – the search for alien life

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Didier Queloz: The search for habitable exoplanets

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Didier Queloz: The search for habitable exoplanets

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Surface of Mars

Space

Salty Martian groundwater may have enough oxygen to support life

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Alien life could spread between solar systems on interstellar rocks

Space

Alien life could spread between solar systems on interstellar rocks

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A picture of a radio telescope

Space

Why haven't we heard from aliens? Because we've barely started looking

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10 mysteries of the universe: Is there life out there?

Space

10 mysteries of the universe: Is there life out there?

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DNA model

Life

Artificial genes show life does not have to be based on DNA

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Life

Exclusive: Chinese sci-fi genius Cixin Liu on humanity's deadly future

The future is bright for our species, mostly because we kill everything in our path, says China's first winner of the Hugo science-fiction award

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Life

The clues to finding alien life could lie in Earth's deep past

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Environment

How a tiny festival could save Scotland's coastal culture

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Environment

Sterile fish could help wild salmon dodge the ‘gene pollution’ effect

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Preserved ocean creatures make landfall in London

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