Life
Top astrobiologist explores the possibilities of alien life
It's time to expect the unexpected, says Natalie Cabrol, one of the world's top astrobiologists and author of an authoritative book on the hunt for life's origins – and ET
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Life
Has the mystery of life’s ‘handedness’ finally been cracked?
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Life
Donald Johanson: Unearthing Lucy changed my life and the world
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Life
Oldest rocks on Earth may contain strange and ancient life forms
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Life
Last common ancestor of all life emerged far earlier than thought
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Technology
Google creates self-replicating life from digital ‘primordial soup’
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Life
Protocells on early Earth may have been formed by squeezing geysers
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Life
Life’s vital chemistry may have begun in hot, cracked rock
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Space
How our golden age of asteroid exploration could reveal life’s origins
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Space
Why space dust is key to everything from star birth to life on Earth
Cosmic dust grains may be small, but they are mighty – it turns out dust is crucial to just about every process that occurs in space
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Chemistry
Crucial chemical for life can form in conditions found on early Earth
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Space
Cosmic dust may have been crucial to the beginnings of life on Earth
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Life
Traces of ancient life reveal a 3.4-billion-year-old ecosystem
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Space
Comets may bring ingredients for life most easily to clustered planets
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