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No magic bullet: a Congressional agreement on guns

The Intelligence from The Economist

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How to Find Life on Earth?

No one has actually ever defined what life is. What most astrobiologists default to is nassa's operational definition of life, which is a self-sustaining chemical reaction that's of darwinian evolution. You could imagine a chemistry that is different to ours, that is living. In the lab on earth, certain oxides of metals called polyoxy metallates can show very lifelike capabilities.

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