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Why Schrödinger's 1944 classic What Is Life? still feels prescient

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Why Schrödinger's 1944 classic What Is Life? still feels prescient

Pioneer of quantum mechanics Erwin Schrödinger's look at living organisms is one of the most influential popular-science books of the 20th century. So how does it hold up today, asks Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

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The best new popular science books of July 2026

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The best new popular science books of July 2026

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Possible signs of ancient life on Mars are rich in complex carbon

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Complex life on Earth may last 500 million years longer than expected

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Has the answer to life's origins been hiding in our cells all along?

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Has the answer to life's origins been hiding in our cells all along?

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The one film to watch before seeing Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day

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The one film to watch before seeing Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day

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The book jacket of Togetherness by Rowan Hooper

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91av recommends Togetherness, a radical new view of life

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How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – and aliens

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How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – and aliens

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The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life

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The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life

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US government releases huge batch of UFO files

The US Department of Defense has released hundreds of documents and photographs related to UFOs, some of which have been declassified, in the first of many drops to come

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The asteroid Ryugu has all of the main ingredients for life

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SETI may have missed alien signals because of space weather

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Chemistry clues could detect aliens unlike any life on Earth

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Would aliens do physics, or is science a human invention?

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