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A new finding boosts Panspermia, the theory that life on Earth originated in deep space.

Geneticist Paul Nurse on his Nobel Prize-winning discovery, the importance of failure, and a revelation about his own origins.

Scientists are studying them to help protect endangered host species.

Scientists on the art that has inspired them. Artists on the science that has inspired them.

Can tiny forests deliver on big environmental problems?

Sixty years later, will anybody have heard of COVID-19?

In some deep aquifers, cells have a chemical trick that could sustain whole underground ecosystems.

Richard Dawkins’ hypothesis buries a crucial part of life’s story.

Astronomers are learning to decode the meanings hidden in stellar songs.

Deepfakes are taking old scams to the next level.

Why the “hard problem” of AI—controlling our superintelligent creations—is impossible.