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Elise Cutts

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Elise Cutts is one of those ex-researchers who realized that writing about science is much more fun than doing it herself. Previously a geobiologist, she now writes about physics, geoscience, and space research in Europe and beyond from her home in Graz, Austria.

Astronomy

Searching for Alien Life Along the Cosmic Shoreline

How planets gain and lose atmospheres might give us a new map of where to look for life

April 7, 2025
Astronomy

Doubts Grow About the Biosignature Approach to Alien-Hunting

Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.

April 1, 2024