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Oct 2024
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The Shadow Biosphere: Is There Other Lif...

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As far as we know life evolved once in the universe – here on Earth in the form of life as we know it. Could life have originated in other conditions with different raw materials? If so, we may be sharing the planet with lifeforms we don’t recognize yet.

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