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extraterrestrial life

We've dug up tiny animals from beneath a frozen Antarctic lake

Life

We've dug up tiny animals from beneath a frozen Antarctic lake

The discovery of preserved carcasses of tiny crustaceans and tardigrades beneath Lake Mercer suggests biologically complex life may survive deep beneath the ice

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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

Video

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

Life

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

Video

Didier Queloz: The search for habitable exoplanets

Video

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?

Features

DNA model

Life

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

Two modified versions of DNA add different “letters” to life’s genetic code but still work just as well as the original

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Life

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

Culture

Life

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

Features

Environment

How a tiny festival could save Scotland's coastal culture

Culture

Environment

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

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