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Why we’re in for a long wait to hear from intelligent aliens

Hints of bacteria on Venus are encouraging, but finding life beyond Earth is the easy part. A new analysis suggests the evolution of human-like intelligence on another planet is more improbable than we like to imagine

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The theory of evolution is a vibrant, living entity still in its prime

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Wildfire nightmare captured in harrowing image of California burning

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Beautiful blooming phytoplankton create swirling art in the Baltic Sea

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Deep-sea microbes survive on less energy than we thought possible

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A radical new theory rewrites the story of how life on Earth began

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Butterflies are showing us how wildlife will cope with climate change

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Hundreds of thousands of slime moulds can merge together to find food

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First life on Earth may actually have been built from both RNA and DNA

Many biologists suspect that the first life on Earth was based on RNA, but a new study suggests DNA could have been in the mix right from the start

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

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

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

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The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses

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