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The countdown to Webb’s first full-colour images begins

John Bader25th June, 2022 After 25 years of innovation, invention and perseverance, and many milestones along the way, the James...

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Life on Mars? Let’s hope not

Finding extra-terrestrial life on our nearest neighbour would be celebrated as one of the most important events of the last...

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Extraterrestrial life: ready or not, here we come

Although we’re now searching for extraterrestrial life in other galaxies, there was once a time when we couldn’t even imagine...

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Where do we come from, where do we go?

We’ve put man on the moon, visited Pluto and Jupiter, and even managed to land a probe on a speeding...

The search for life in oceans beyond

Where is the best place to find living life beyond Earth? It may be that the small, ice-covered moons of Jupiter and...

From Mars to the multiverse: life, space and the cosmos with Martin Rees

Astronomer Royal and former President of the Royal Society Lord Martin Rees presents the 2016 Peter Lindsay Memorial Lecture. Unmanned...

Lunch Hour Lectures: Looking for life on Mars

Mars is our closest hope for life beyond Earth. 3.8 billion years ago, when life was starting here, Mars was...

The Story of Life

How was the code of DNA cracked? How did it confirm the theory of evolution? And why did life evolve...

Designing Nature

Biology appears to be less law-like than its sister sciences, but could we change this with design? Jane Calvert and Alistair Elfick discuss...