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Earth

Chris Mason interview: Let’s tweak human DNA for life on other planets

To become an interplanetary species, we may have to genetically engineer ourselves to be more resilient, says geneticist Chris Mason. He has a 500-year plan for life away from Earth

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Life

Fairy lantern flower has a gaping ‘mouth’ and saps energy from fungi

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Life

Deepest land-dwelling microbes found at bottom of 5km hole in China

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Environment

Ten conservation success stories when species came back from the brink

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Life

Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet ‘shouldn’t be there’

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Life

Water may be even more crucial to life than we thought

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Life

The curious case of the 鈥済lacier mice鈥� that seem to dance on ice

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Humans

Physics might create a backdoor to an afterlife 鈥� but don’t bank on it

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Humans

How nature, nurture and sheer randomness combine to make a unique you

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Humans

You are stardust: The long view of when your existence really began

The point when you began depends on the scale you look at and how you define a person 鈥� in one sense you鈥檙e as old as the universe, in another you鈥檝e hardly begun at all

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Life

The search for the origin of life: From panspermia to primordial soup

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Life

Alien life may exist on Venus but intelligence could be harder to find

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Life

Missions to confirm signs of life on Venus are already in the works

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Space

To understand signs of life on Venus we must do chemistry on Earth

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