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NPR / 15 August, 2025

What makes 'life' so hard to define? A developmental biologist weighs in

In this Back To School episode we consider the List of Life: the criteria that define what it is to be a living thing. Some are easy calls: A kitten is alive. A grain of salt is not.But what about the tricky cases, like a virus? Or, more importantly, what a…

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