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11 February 2022
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Floating in microgravity gives bacteria permanent genetic boost
31 May 2017
Life in simulated zero gravity turns bacteria into reproductive powerhouses and may help them form tough colonies that could pose a risk to humans in space
Supernovae 2 million years ago may have changed human behaviour
9 June 2016
Two nearby supernovae explosions may have increased cancer rates and changed the behaviour of early humans - but that's a pretty big may
Missing building block of life could be made on ice in space
7 April 2016
Many of the things needed for life to get started have been found on meteorites or comets. Now we've worked out how to make one of the more elusive ingredients
Pairs of habitable worlds could throw microbes at each other
2 December 2015
Some exoplanet systems have planets a fifth as close together as Earth is to Mars, a factor that could drive interplanetary fraternisation
Formation of life's building blocks recreated in lab
8 December 2014
Recreating a meteorite impact with a laser has demonstrated directly how the building blocks of the genetic code could have formed on our primordial planet
Alien life arrested by climate catch-22
3 December 2014
Other Earth-like planets may be caught in a dilemma – they need stable, warm climates to support complex life, but a lack of life may preclude this
Just how rare is intelligent life in the universe?
13 August 2014
Although intelligent life may exist on other planets, The Copernicus Complex by Caleb Scharf argues that Earth will still be special after all
Crack a comet to spawn the ingredients of life
15 September 2013
A simulated smash-up between a comet and a planet has created amino acids within the comet's ice
Meteorites could have been source of life's batteries
3 April 2013
Dissolved in volcanic ponds, meteorites could have provided early life with the chemicals it needed to store energy
