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If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

New research casts doubt on the prospects for a habitable, active environment beneath the frozen surface of Jupiter’s moon ...

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Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...