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If it moves, it’s probably alive: Searching for life on other planets

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Researchers at the Technical University in Berlin , Germany , used amino acid L-serine to make microbes come to a robot.

The move is based on the most obvious biosignature of them all: motility.

Most recent missions, the Perseverance rover included, weren’t equipped with specialized life-detecting instruments.

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