{"id":6193,"date":"2022-02-16T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/?p=111560"},"modified":"2022-02-16T01:15:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T00:15:09","slug":"new-issue-signs-of-alien-life","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/rss_feed\/new-issue-signs-of-alien-life\/","title":{"rendered":"New issue: Signs of alien life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Sara Rigby\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 16 February 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--full=\"\" style=\"&quot;padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> 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