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A new study suggests intelligence may be a natural outcome of planetary evolution, challenging old theories and raising the ...

The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

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Dark oxygen, a newly identified form of oxygen, raises questions about life in extreme environments and its implications for ...