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ack in September 2020, scientists revealed that they had found phosphine in Venus’s atmosphere. On Earth, phosphine is only produced by life - either by humans in a laboratory or by anaerobic organisms - so could there be a habitable zone in Venus’s cloud deck, home to a phosphine-producing type of hardy life form? Even as an

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