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sea life

Spotlight on plankton, the ocean's fascinating, bite-sized creatures

Life

Spotlight on plankton, the ocean's fascinating, bite-sized creatures

Every night, plankton take a journey to shallower waters to feed, prompting predators to follow in search of a very small, but tasty, snack. These images are taken from a new book, Planktonia, illuminating their daily ascent

Regulars

The Murchison meteorite

Chemistry

Building blocks for life may be able to form in radioactive meteorites

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People walk in a flooded St Mark's Square

Environment

Venice may get a temporary respite from rising seas by 2035

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Pair of vaquita sighted during 2008 survey in Gulf of California

Life

Mexico’s latest plan to save endangered vaquitas could backfire

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jellyfish-like siphonophores

Video

Siphonophores' propulsion system is built for speed and efficiency

Video

Rapidly thinning Northeast Greenland ice sheet could add more to sea-level rise than thought

Video

Melting Greenland ice raises sea level more than previously thought

Video

Remote review: An architect in a future Kuala Lumpur comes adrift

Humans

Remote review: An architect in a future Kuala Lumpur comes adrift

Culture

Bacteria picture

Space

Bacteria could survive just under Mars's surface for 280 million years

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The hunt for habitable ocean worlds beyond our solar system

Space

The hunt for habitable ocean worlds beyond our solar system

Features

Satellite image of Jakobshavn glacier,

Environment

Engineering firms explore plan to slow melting of Greenland glacier

Companies are considering a major geoengineering project that would build a barrier to block warm seawater from reaching the base of Jakobshavn glacier in Greenland

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Environment

The surprising role death plays in the stability of ecosystems

Features

Environment

Second world war shipwreck is leaking toxic chemicals in the North Sea

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Life

Experiments hint at how molecules essential to all life first arose

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Environment

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

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