10 BQ – Puzzle has life of its own

By Stav | Published: May 17, 2011

What is life?  Well, it is not until you start to look really closely and pick objects that are bit harder to put into the living versus the non-living categories.

It turns out that scientists have been pondering this question for quite a while. Most agree that there are four essential criteria that any candidate organisms must satisfy before they can be considered “living”.

Read more about this 10 Big Question from the latest ‘Can you Believe it?’ article ‘Puzzle has life of its own’ by Tatiana Soares da Costa, a PhD student in the School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, University of Adelaide.

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