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Life on earth uses water as a solvent, but scientists have long speculated about the possibility of life existing in non-aqueous environments. Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has seas of liquid methane, and scientists at Cornell wanted to test whether structures similar to cell membranes could form on Titan. They took data from the Cassini probe to identify the compounds available on Titan, and performed computer simulations of these molecule...