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marine biology

Chimneys of iron hydroxide (left) and iron sulphide (right) precipitate out of solution when alkaline fluids feed into these mimics of early Earth oceans

Earth

Genesis in a jar: How chemical gardens may lead us to alien life

Experiments are under way to mimic possible life-forming processes at alkaline vents on the sea floor, and perhaps elsewhere in the solar system

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Rwanda

Humans

Does science undermine human rights?

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Transgender Olympians in Rio don't have an unfair advantage

Life

Transgender Olympians in Rio don't have an unfair advantage

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Parasite on a deep-sea fish

Life

Videos reveal the Russian doll parasitic world of the deep seas

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Bottom trawler scrapes the sea bed

Life

Deep-sea ecosystems still under threat despite UN protection

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Cyclists on road bikes

Health

Legal ketone sports supplement pushes athletes further, faster

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A small pink and white fish next to come coral

Life

Deepest-ever reef survey by divers discovers new fish species

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Rock chimneys spew what looks like smoke although this is actually on the seabed

Life

Universal ancestor of all life on Earth was only half alive

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Eating each other’s faeces helps earwig young survive famine

Life

Eating each other’s faeces helps earwig young survive famine

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Dingo cannibalism makes for a dog-eat-dog world in Australia

Life

Dingo cannibalism makes for a dog-eat-dog world in Australia

Australia’s wild dogs have been caught on camera for the first time savaging dead dingoes, a rare case of cannibalism unprovoked by hunger

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Health

Thousands of fMRI brain studies in doubt due to software flaws

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Life

Meet the philosopher ducklings that indulge in abstract thought

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Life

Jellyfish as you’ve never seen them – meet the underwater aliens

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Life

Jellymageddon: Can we stop the rise of the jellyfish?

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