Schrödinger once famously posed the question "what is life?" 75 years later, theoretical physicist and astro-biologist Sara Walker takes it one step further to ask "life is what?". Here she explores how counterintuitive an explanation for life might be once we discover it.
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Sara Walker is an astro-biologist and theoretical physicist interested in the origin of life and how to find life on other worlds.
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