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Life

Artificial genes show life does not have to be based on DNA

Two modified versions of DNA add different “letters” to life’s genetic code but still work just as well as the original

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Life

Exclusive: Chinese sci-fi genius Cixin Liu on humanity's deadly future

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Earth

Life

The clues to finding alien life could lie in Earth's deep past

Features

Film-maker Ed Webb-Ingall investigates the Arran shoreline

Environment

How a tiny festival could save Scotland's coastal culture

Culture

Sterile fish could help wild salmon dodge the ‘gene pollution’ effect

Environment

Sterile fish could help wild salmon dodge the ‘gene pollution’ effect

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Preserved ocean creatures make landfall in London

Life

Preserved ocean creatures make landfall in London

Culture

We could find life on Europa by just scratching its surface

Space

We could find life on Europa by just scratching its surface

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Space

Why weird star systems are where we'll find alien life

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Person stands beneath the Milky Way

Space

Are we alone in the universe? Science says it’s a definite maybe

Analysis

Mars has complex organic material that may be from ancient life

Space

Mars has complex organic material that may be from ancient life

The Curiosity rover has found methane in Mars’s atmosphere and complex organic molecules preserved for 3.5 billion years. Both could have come from life

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Space

I'm working on a universal language to let us speak to aliens

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Space

Exoplanet with a cloudless sky may let us see inside a gas giant

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Space

Life on toxic Venus? Acid-loving microbes could thrive in clouds

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Space

Life on nearest exoplanet may have been wiped out by superflare

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