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By now you've heard about the detection of phosphine on Venus, and how this may indicate there is life in the upper clouds of the Venusian atmosphere.
But what *IS* phosphine? What kind of life on earth produces this gas--and what kind of life would make it in the extremely acidic clouds of our nearest planetary neighbor?
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Phosphine has been discovered in the clouds of Venus. What could this mean from a biochemistry perspective?
