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Alien life may exist on Venus but intelligence could be harder to find
Phosphine in Venus鈥檚 atmosphere could be a sign of alien microbes, but we will probably never discover an intelligent alien civilisation
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Life
Missions to confirm signs of life on Venus are already in the works
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Space
To understand signs of life on Venus we must do chemistry on Earth
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Environment
The endangered giants that still lurk in the world鈥檚 biggest rivers
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Life
Why we’re in for a long wait to hear from intelligent aliens
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Humans
The theory of evolution is a vibrant, living entity still in its prime
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Environment
Wildfire nightmare captured in harrowing image of California burning
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Beautiful blooming phytoplankton create swirling art in the Baltic Sea
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Deep-sea microbes survive on less energy than we thought possible
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A radical new theory rewrites the story of how life on Earth began
It has long been thought that the ingredients for life came together slowly, bit by bit. Now there is evidence it all happened at once in a chemical big bang
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Panspermia
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Butterflies are showing us how wildlife will cope with climate change
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Life
Hundreds of thousands of slime moulds can merge together to find food
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First life on Earth may actually have been built from both RNA and DNA
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