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marine life

Scar marks across the seabed indicate scallop dredging continues legally inside the protected area

Environment

Dredging in crucial habitat sparks row over UK marine protected areas

Footage showing protected Scottish waters raked clean by scallop dredgers shows that marine protected areas are "paper parks", say campaigners

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Dark blue ocean surface seen from underwater. Waves underwater and rays of sunlight shining through

Life

Experiments hint at how molecules essential to all life first arose

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Hundreds of dead crabs on the beach at Seaton Carew, Hartlepool in 2021 https://twitter.com/12BBYTHESEASIDE/status/1452164992845983744 Paul Grainger (permissions granted)

Environment

What’s causing a mass die-off of crabs on the UK coast?

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Artist's impression of three planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star

Space

Earth's algae and moss could survive under the light of another star

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Saturn's moon Enceladus

Space

Enceladus shown to have all six of the essential elements for life

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TOP IMAGE - Jason deCaires Taylor, Rubicon, 2016. Picture credit: @jasondecairestaylor(page 181) Stainless steel, pH-neutral cement, basalt and aggregates,installation view, Museo Atl?ntico, Las Coloradas, Lanzarote, Atlantic Ocean

Humans

Art of the ocean: How artists have depicted the marine world

Regulars

Illustration of a ribosome

Life

Self-replicating protein factories are a step towards artificial life

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We need to act now to give future generations a better world

Humans

We need to act now to give future generations a better world

Comment

aerial view of a Bull Shark (Carcharhinus leucas). reefs of the Sea of Cortez, Pacific ocean. Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The world's aquarium.; Shutterstock ID 623521508; purchase_order: 10 Sept 2022 issue; job: Photo; client: NS; other:

Life

Two new books about sharks reveal how and why we should conserve them

Culture

Megalodon

Life

Ancient megalodon shark could eat a whale in just a few bites

The first 3D reconstruction of a huge, ancient shark called megalodon suggests it was even bigger than previously thought

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Life

Sponges can ‘sneeze’ and other sea creatures eat their mucus

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Life

Southern fin whales have recovered to large numbers in the Antarctic

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Life

Snapping shrimps have helmets to ward off shock waves from their claws

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Physics

Is life the result of the laws of entropy?

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