The search for shadow life

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11 March 2009
Dear New Scientist Reader, welcome to the New Scientist newsletter. This week, we reveal how the Earth could soon host entirely new forms of life, why we might be wasting millions of dollars trying to "save" species that aren't actually endangered, and the stories of eight daring scientists who became their own test subjects...
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Second Genesis: A New Start For Life On Earth

We only know about one kind of terrestrial life, but that's about to change. Biologists may be close to discovering forms of life that evolved separately from the kind we're familiar with, thriving in a previously unsuspected "shadow biosphere"...MORE

 

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