Weekly: Have we really just found the strongest evidence for alien life yet?

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  In the creators of the popular science show with millions of YouTube subscribers comes the MinuteEarth podcast.

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  Every episode of the show dives deep into a science question you might not even know you had,

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  Hello, welcome to a bonus episode of the new scientist podcast.

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  I'm Rhon Hooper.

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  Now I wanted to do a special show today because some big news has just broken,

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  suggesting the detection of life on another planet.

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  We're going to hear from some astronomers in a minute,

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  but the top line for this story is about the purported discovery of a molecule called DMS,

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  which on Earth is only produced by plankton,

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  and which may have turned up in the atmosphere of a planet called K218B, which is about 120 light-years away.

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  Alex Wilkins is here to discuss this with me.

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  Alex, I want to start with a few headlines about this that have come in overnight.

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