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Nature 436, 1084-1085 (25 August 2005) | doi:10.1038/4361084a; Published online 24 August 2005

Water and life:  Seeking the solution

Philip Ball1

  1. Philip Ball is a consultant editor for Nature.
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Is there any fundamental reason to be fixated on water as the universal elixir of life? Philip Ball investigates.

Where there's water, there's life. That, at least, is what our experience on Earth has taught us, and when it comes to searching for life on other worlds, NASA seems determined to follow the water.

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