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Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

If life exists elsewhere in the universe, researchers at the University of Washington are finding the clues on Earth to help ...

If life ever existed on Mars, it might have looked like microfossils right here on Earth.

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