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How a radical redefinition of life could help us find aliens

How a radical redefinition of life could help us find aliens

19 June 2023

Sara Imari Walker, who developed Assembly Theory with chemist Lee Cronin, explains how the theory's definition of life might help us find it on other planets
Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on

Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on

10 May 2017

Human clones, a colony on Mars, alien contact... what world-changing breakthroughs will come in the next decade? We asked the experts – with some surprising results

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