Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

It’s a paradox: Life needs water to survive, but a world full of water can’t generate the biomolecules that would have been essential for early life. Or so researchers thought. However, when the first ...

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