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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'

The author of In Ascension, the latest pick for the ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ Book Club, on why he wrote his novel, cultivating a sense of wonder and the role of fiction in the world today

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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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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

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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

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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

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

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Adult female Calanus with food in the gut

Environment

Sinking plankton poo could help store more carbon in the ocean

When the faecal matter produced by plankton sinks, it carries carbon from shallow waters to long-term storage deep in the ocean – now, researchers want to make the stuff sink faster

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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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Thousands of humpback whales starved to death after marine heatwave

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Why we're finally on the cusp of finding exomoons around other planets

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