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# tech
Don’t worry about the AI, worry about the humans training it, say researchers who found out how easy it is to turn machines evil.
# astrobiology
We think of water as the most essential ingredient for life, but as a recent discovery shows, it can also be toxic to living things in alien environments
# science
It seems that the NASA-backed research into arsenic-eating microbes had a number of serious flaws that has biologists scratching their heads.
# astrobiology
NASA claimed one of its researchers found alien biochemistry on Earth. Unfortunately, the paper they published doesn't support the hype.
# space
Titan is a target for alien hunters looking for exotic life in our own solar system. But kind of organisms could even survive its bizarre environment?
# space
Far from destroying organic molecules, the conditions in deep space seems to foster their creation while protecting them from cosmic rays.
# astrobiology
Panspermia is a hypothesis of how life might have hitchhiked to Earth. It's not meant to explain how life actually began.