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What is life and how did it evolve? We're getting closer to the answer

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What is life and how did it evolve? We're getting closer to the answer

Science is still struggling to define what life actually is, and how it came to be. Now, Paul Davies argues that an answer is at last in sight.

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What lies beneath: diving to the UK’s answer to the Great Barrier Reef

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What lies beneath: diving to the UK’s answer to the Great Barrier Reef

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We know the best spots to look for alien life – can we get to them?

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We know the best spots to look for alien life – can we get to them?

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Earth's first life may have fuelled itself with a metal metabolism

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The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses

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The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses

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Life's other mystery: Why biology's building blocks are so lop-sided

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Life's other mystery: Why biology's building blocks are so lop-sided

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Great Barrier Reef coral

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The Great Barrier Reef has suffered its most widespread bleaching yet

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Newly discovered species found deep in the ocean contains microplastic

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Newly discovered species found deep in the ocean contains microplastic

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The coronavirus owes its name to the crown-like projections that encircle the capsid.

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A demon from Doom

Technology

Doom Eternal review: A welcome adrenaline-inducing distraction

Doom Eternal does contain gratuitous violence, but the evidence suggests violence in video games doesn't affect people's behaviour in the real world, says Jacob Aron

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Space

Mars may once have had right conditions for RNA to develop into life

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Space

Solar flares and cosmic rays may make Proxima b warm enough for life

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Life

First self-replicating molecules may have had just two ingredients

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Humans

Uploading your brain will leave you exposed to software glitches

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