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This week’s new questions

How many cyclists is optimal for an efficient bike ride? And how are sea vents colonised? Send your answers and we’ll publish the best in the Last Word

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Why icy moons like Europa are our best bet for finding alien life

Life

Why icy moons like Europa are our best bet for finding alien life

Features

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

Life

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

News

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

Video

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

Video

We know the best spots to look for alien life – can we get to them?

Space

We know the best spots to look for alien life – can we get to them?

Culture

nickel sulphide

Life

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

News

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

Life

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

Features

The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses

Life

The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses

Features

Why do so many people become obsessed with UFOs and aliens?

Humans

Why do so many people become obsessed with UFOs and aliens?

Culture

Newly discovered species found deep in the ocean contains microplastic

Life

Newly discovered species found deep in the ocean contains microplastic

A shrimp-like creature found 6 kilometres down in the Pacific Ocean’s deepest trench has been named Eurythenes plasticus after the microplastics found in its gut

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Viruses

Technology

Doom Eternal review: A welcome adrenaline-inducing distraction

Culture

Space

Mars may once have had right conditions for RNA to develop into life

News

Space

Solar flares and cosmic rays may make Proxima b warm enough for life

News