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Space

Sugar molecules found in interstellar space for the first time

Researchers have long suspected early life may have been helped by sugars brought to Earth by asteroids 鈥� now a sugar found in raspberries has been spotted in a cosmic cloud nearly 27 light years away

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Life

Has the answer to life’s origins been hiding in our cells all along?

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Life

How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin 鈥� and aliens

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Chemistry

RNA strand that can almost self-replicate may be key to life’s origins

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Mind

How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a ‘mind’ really is

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A deep image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

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Comet 3I/ATLAS from beyond solar system carries key molecule for life

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A hand holding glowing prion proteins, from which fossils and microbes emerge.

Life

A sinister, deadly brain protein could reveal the origins of all life

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Life

Protocells self-assembling on micrometeorites hint at origins of life

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We鈥檙e getting close to recreating the first step in evolution of life

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Life

Strange microbes give clues to the ancestor of all complex life

The origin of complex eukaryotic cells, of the type found in all plants and animals, is shrouded in mystery. Now, strange microbes from wetlands in China are helping us to understand when they first emerged, and what they were like

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Life

Can a strange state of matter explain what life is 鈥� and how it began?

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Life

The surprising new idea behind what sparked life on Earth

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Space

Complex form of carbon spotted outside solar system for first time

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Space

Freeze-thaw cycle helps asteroids ferry molecules of life to planets

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