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Ashley Little Boy Big Disease

Saving Ashley: What a life is worth

HE’S only five and has a deadly disease he can’t yet pronounce. It would cost us $240,000 a year for the only drug that will save him but who should pay? This is the battle to keep one cheeky, gap-toothed, puppy-loving special little boy alive.

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Life on planets orbiting red dwarf stars is likely to have faced a completely different set of evolutionary challenges to our own.

Take a tour of TRAPPIST1

ALIENS just got real. NASA’s discovery of six new Earth-like worlds certainly stacks up the odds. But any life-forms on those planets will have been shaped in very strange ways.

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