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It's one of life's biggest questions – are we alone in the universe? Now, in good news for sci–fi fans, one of Britain's top space scientists has declared she is 'absolutely convinced' there are ...

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New experiments suggest RNA, life’s essential molecule, could have formed naturally on early Earth and even arrived from ...