Panspermia is a theory that life can spread naturally between planets. Amir Siraj studies how life on Earth might have first arrived from another world. He is the youngest person included in this year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 list of scientists, and is a student at Harvard University and the New England Conservatory of Music.

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