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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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Life

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

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The book jacket of Togetherness by Rowan Hooper

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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Togetherness, a radical new view of life

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Life

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

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OSIRIS-REx Sample

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Asteroid Bennu carries all the ingredients for life as we know it

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Physics

We may need a fourth law of thermodynamics for living systems

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Sporophyte sample from the space exposure experiment on the ISS

Life

Moss spores survive and germinate after 283-day ‘space walk’

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2YP7KC6 Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vents Mid-Pacific, Deep sea exploration 2025. Deep-sea mining, Deep Ocean Volcanoes

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Earth’s extraordinary deep biosphere is our next great frontier

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Marine tube worms in the deep-sea environment

Life

How life thrives in one of the most hostile environments on Earth

Creatures that lurk more than 9000 metres deep in the Pacific Ocean get their nutrients from a surprising source

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How symbiosis made Earth what it is – and why it’s key to our future

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Life

All living things emit an eerie glow that is snuffed out upon death

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Life

Let’s remember that extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence

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Life

A festival of stunning animal pictures from 2024

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