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The Download: how America lost its lead in the hunt for alien life, and ambitious battery claims

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in. In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover came across a peculiar rocky outcrop on Mars covered in strange spots. On Earth, these marks are almost always produced by microbial life. Sure, those specks are not definitive proof of alien life. …

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MIT Technology Review broke the news in Boston, United States on Thursday, February 26, 2026.
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