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origins of life

Cosmic dust may have been crucial to the beginnings of life on Earth

Space

Cosmic dust may have been crucial to the beginnings of life on Earth

Earth lacks some of the ingredients that would have been key to the origins of life – they may have been delivered to glacial ponds by tiny specks of cosmic dust

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Pitcairn Islands

Environment

What a trip to far-flung islands taught me about protecting our oceans

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Could mysterious marine fungi save us from antibiotic resistance?

Environment

Could mysterious marine fungi save us from antibiotic resistance?

Features

Life

Weird anglerfish mating strategy may have helped them evolve

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Life

Why bioabundance is just as important as biodiversity

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Space

What we know about the stars where NASA will hunt for alien life

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Life

Traces of ancient life reveal a 3.4-billion-year-old ecosystem

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Venus

Space

Molecules vital for life could survive in Venus’s acid clouds

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Martin Rees - Astronomer Royal

Space

'This century is special': Martin Rees on the vast span of time

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Life

The science of why spending time in nature is just so good for us

Getting outside to garden or walk in a park is good for your body – it’s exercise and you can get some vitamin D from the sun – but it’s also important for your self-esteem and mood

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Physics

The laws of physics were broken in 2023 - by sperm

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Life

Life may be less chaotic than we thought, say physicists

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Space

Cyanide in the ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus could be good for life

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Space

Mercury has salt glaciers that could provide the conditions for life

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