All life on Earth is made from molecules that are known to be “chiral”. This means that they can exist in 2 versions, like your left and right hands. They look the same, but can’t be perfectly laid on top of each other. For example, all of the proteins in our bodies are made of left-handed amino acids (L amino acids). But there are also right-handed ones (D-amino acids), which life on Earth doesn’t use.  Mirror life is a hypothetical form of biology built entirely from these

More often than not, we tend to associate larger body sizes with being more susceptible to cancer. This idea is amplified due to the presence of more cells in species with larger body sizes, such as whales and elephants. However, this is not truly the case.  Peto’s Paradox, first proposed by English statistician and epidemiologist Richard Peto, describes the inverse correlation between body size and the number of cells of an organism at the species level and the incidence of

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