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What is life, asks Dimitar Sasselov in The Life of Super-Earths: How the hunt for alien worlds and artificial cells will revolutionize life on our planet
WE CAN kid ourselves about big questions. What is the origin of mass? What is dark matter? Does time really exist? But in our heart of hearts there is only one question we desperately want to answer: what is life and how did it come about?
Astrophysicist Dimitar Sasselov argues that…
