Does a Dark Biosphere Exist to Aliens May Be Watching Us
The “dark biosphere”: Do mirror-image lifeforms exist?--biochemist Ting Zhu of Westlake University in Hangzhou, China, has made it his mission to create mirror-image versions of the key molecular ingredients of life. Creating a kind of primitive form of life, but inverted relative to every known organism, and therefore the first truly non-natural life form.
Aliens, fact vs. fiction: a Big Think Q&A with astrophysicist Adam Frank--"If we find just one other example of biology out there, then life is not an accident."
Largest-ever computer simulation of the universe escalates cosmology dilemma, reports Space.com. Astronomers say computer simulations are not just great cosmic eye candy but also important probes to help pin down the cause of a major discrepancy in cosmology called the "S8 tension" --the debate over how matter in the cosmos is distributed.
BBC News: Why aliens might already know that humans exist--Alien astronomers might be looking in our direction from distant planets. What would they see?
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