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Meet NASA's latest Mars Rover: Will Perseverance find life in 2021?

Meet NASA's latest Mars Rover: Will Perseverance find life in 2021?

22 September 2020

Perseverance is the first NASA mission to explicitly look for signs of ancient life. It will also test the first extraterrestrial helicopter and prepare for human exploration.
James Lovelock standing near the sea at Chesil Beach

James Lovelock says artificial intelligence is the start of new life

11 July 2019

New Scientist interviewed James Lovelock to discuss Gaia’s Novacene and our new AI overlords, microwaving hamsters for science and why Elon Musk’s Mars mission is ‘crazy’

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