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The book jacket of Togetherness by Rowan Hooper

Life

91av recommends Togetherness, a radical new view of life

An exploration of how biological cooperation underpins all life - and why we’ve overlooked its power until now - makes thrilling reading, finds Penny Sarchet

Culture

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

Life

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

Features

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

Space

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

Features

Space

US government releases huge batch of UFO files

News

Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft snapped pictures of the asteroid Ryugu while flying alongside it two years ago. The spacecraft later returned rock samples from the asteroid to Earth.

Space

The asteroid Ryugu has all of the main ingredients for life

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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare on Oct. 2, 2014. The solar flare is the bright flash of light on the right limb of the sun. A burst of solar material erupting out into space can be seen just below it. Full 4k full-disk view. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11670/

Space

SETI may have missed alien signals because of space weather

News

Space

Chemistry clues could detect aliens unlike any life on Earth

News

Person looking up at starry night at Spiral Jetty, USA. Provider: Alamy Stock Photo Source: www.alamy.com Copyright: Celestine Dagli/Alamy

Physics

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

Comment

Space

Search for radio signals finds no hint of alien civilisation on K2-18b

News

Weird and wonderful fungi should be so much more than sci-fi villains

Life

Weird and wonderful fungi should be so much more than sci-fi villains

Fungi have become Hollywood’s go-to bad guys. But as yet another story focuses on Cordyceps, Nick Crumpton says we are missing a chance to broaden our fictional horizons

Comment

Life

91av recommends The Big Oyster: History on the half shell

Culture

Chemistry

RNA strand that can almost self-replicate may be key to life's origins

News

Mind

How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' really is

Features

Space

Was 2025 the year we found signs of past life on Mars?

News