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3d rendered medically accurate illustration of amino acids

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Life’s vital chemistry may have begun in hot, cracked rock

Amino acids and other molecules important to the origin of life can be enriched within networks of rocky fractures, which would have been common on the early Earth

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2PMHEF7 Panoramic aerial of Pitcairn island, British Overseas Territory, South Pacific, Pacific

Environment

How the infamous Pitcairn Island became a model of ocean conservation

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Martin MacInnes: 'Science fiction can be many different things'

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Martin MacInnes: 'Science fiction can be many different things'

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Pacific leatherback turtle and school of fish

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Turtle tagging project is helping protect leatherback migratory routes

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Californian orcas used specialised tactics for hunting whale calves

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Space

Europa’s seafloor may be impenetrable and inhospitable to life

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Damaged coral reefs can recover quickly after restoration work

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Damaged coral reefs can recover quickly after restoration work

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cross-section through Europa

Space

Europa may have less oxygen to fuel life in its seas than we thought

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How our golden age of asteroid exploration could reveal life's origins

Space

How our golden age of asteroid exploration could reveal life's origins

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Life

Orca seen hunting great white shark in first recorded solo kill

An orca named Starboard was seen killing a great white shark and eating its liver in waters near South Africa, showing that solo orcas can take on other big predators

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Space

Why space dust is key to everything from star birth to life on Earth

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Environment

Sinking plankton poo could help store more carbon in the ocean

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Space

Habitable ocean world K2-18b may actually be inhospitable gas planet

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Life

Strange animals called pyrosomes are thriving as the Pacific heats up

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