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It’s Alive!!!

Or, is it? Giant viruses having the genetic machinery to make all 20 amino acids deemed necessary for life blur the definition of “living”.

Dry Life

Microbes in the Atacama desert suggest life could be possible on Mars.

Wet Life

A species of methanogen extremeophile normally found near deep sea vents was able to thrive in lab conditions simulating the oceans of Enceladus.

Neanderthal Art

Cave paintings suggest Neanderthals were arty before Homo sapiens.

Why do dogs eat poop,