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Sep 2025
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Building Life from Scratch with Kerstin ...

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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What is the origin of life in the universe? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Matt Kirshen explore how life got its start, the Miller-Urey experiment, and synthetic biology with molecular biologist Kerstin Göpfrich. Could the first alien life we find be the one we make? 
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