Unconventional Biochemistries and the Quest for Life Beyond Earth
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Exploration of life beyond Earth covers speculative ideas from silicon- and arsenic-based chemistries with ammonia as a solvent to Titan’s methane seas, hybrid biochemistries, plasma and dust life, interstellar chemistry, panspermia, and the possibility that Earth is the universe’s only cradle, with carbon-based life as the familiar foundation.