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Reading the "rainbow" of a distant world. Every gas in an atmosphere absorbs spe...
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Beyond biology: looking for alien technology. Sometimes the best way to find life is to lo...
Searching for the "breath" of an alien world. When billions of organisms live on...
Photosynthesis isn't the only game in town. While most life on Earth runs on sunbeams,...