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Deep-sea microbes survive on less energy than we thought possible
We thought we understood life鈥檚 minimal energy requirements 鈥� but microbes beneath the sea floor survive on hundreds of times less energy than we considered possible
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A radical new theory rewrites the story of how life on Earth began
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Panspermia
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Hundreds of thousands of slime moulds can merge together to find food
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Environment
Butterflies are showing us how wildlife will cope with climate change
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Life
First life on Earth may actually have been built from both RNA and DNA
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What is life and how did it evolve? We’re getting closer to the answer
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Earth’s first life may have fuelled itself with a metal metabolism
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Life’s other mystery: Why biology’s building blocks are so lop-sided
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The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses
An alligator carcass dropped in the deep ocean reveals the bizarre ecosystems of the seabed - including zombie worms that fed on prehistoric reptiles
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Viruses
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First self-replicating molecules may have had just two ingredients
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Humans
Uploading your brain will leave you exposed to software glitches
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Life
AI genome scanner says Denisovans could live until 38 years old
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