Big Q: Where Did Life Come From?
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How did organisms get started in the first place? Share your wisdom on the Wired Wiki.
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Tycho:  It's hard to imagine not having access to a deep reservoir of supernatural knowledge to enrich and inform my daily life.  As early as age thirteen I was already curating a collection of incredible facts, highly granular assessments of wicked and ancient lizards, up to and including notes on their diet, sleep habits, and taste in home decor.  From the demure to the diabolical, I have sought to build a robust profile of the hidden world.  My very mind is an arsenal.
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Aliens' TV preferences could spark interstellar invasion Top British boffins are convinced that evidence of alien life will soon be discovered outside the solar system.â¦
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Scientists reconstruct part of the genetic code of a 75-million-year-old mammal ancestor.
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Computer engineers could - in theory at least - reconstruct the genes of an animal that lived more than 75 million years ago. No DNA could possibly survive that long, but forensic scientists now routinely
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Scientists have discovered a "microworld" of life trapped in tiny drops of Italian amber. The ancient germs lived over 200 million years ago, when the first dinosaurs appeared.
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From 26,000 light-years-- near the center of our galaxy-- comes a radio signal that can be interpreted as a cloud of sugar molecules, one key component of what might have assisted the development of life if transported on primordial comets.    Astrobiology Magazine -- Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's giant Robert C...
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Ancient carbon-rich globules could offer a glimpse into the solar system's planet-building past and may provide clues to how life on Earth first arose.
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Why do we gossip? Evolution may hold some surprising answers.
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Scientists find water on a distant planet. Someday, maybe they'll find life
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By Unnati Gandhi  Paleontologists have discovered dozens of fossils of a soft- bodied, deep-sea dweller that lived more than half a billion years ago, adding one more piece to the enigmatic puzzle that is the history of life on Earth.
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Nearly 4 billion-year-old rocks from Greenland could hold the earliest evidence of life on Earth, University of Chicago and Field Museum scientists say.
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by Harry Bortman    In part 1 of this interview with Astrobiology Magazine editor Henry Bortman, planetary scientist David Grinspoon explained how Venus evolved from a wet planet similar to Earth to the scorching hot, dried-out furnace of today. In part 2, Grinspoon discusses the possibility of life on Venus...
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Scientists have pinpointed mutations in an ancient protein that transformed its shape and function more than 400 million years ago.
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Star dust found deep beneath the Pacific Ocean has led German scientists to speculate that a supernova explosion 3 million years ago might possibly have helped bring about human evolution.
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What's the universe made of? Why can't we regenerate lost body parts? Wired magazine and top science thinkers tackle the quandaries others are afraid to touch.PLUS: Wired Editors Offer Smart Answers to Silly Questions
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Molecular biologists have uprooted a traditional perspective on life's ancient ancestry, if their supplanted tree-of-life metaphor is modified to look more like a ring-of-life.    Astrobiology Magazine -- One of science's most popular metaphors - the "tree of life," with its evolutionary branches and roots, showing groups of bacteria on the bottom and multicellular animals on the higher branches - turns out to be a misnomer, UCLA molecular biologists report in the Sept...