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sea life

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

Experiments on Earth mimicking the rays from a red dwarf star show that cyanobacteria, algae and moss can grow under these light conditions, backing the idea that some exoplanets could host life

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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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Environment

Most big coastal cities have areas sinking faster than sea level rise

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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

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Life

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

Culture

A broad cowtail stingray (Pastinachus ater)

Life

Watch stingrays make odd clicking sounds as they glide through the sea

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Rock pooling with Helen Scales

Video

Rock pool science with marine biologist Helen Scales

Video

For the first time ever recorded, in the late summer of 2021, rain fell on the high central region of the Greenland ice sheet. This extraordinary event was followed by the surface snow and ice rapidly melting. Researchers discovered that it wasn?t the rain that caused the melt, it was unusually warm ?atmospheric rivers? that swept along Greenland, bringing potent melt conditions when the melt season would normally be drawing to a close. Thanks to detailed measurements from the network of automatic weather stations on the ice set up by the Department of Glaciology and Climate at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland coupled with measurements from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites in space helped researchers understand the exact processes and dynamics of how the ice melts.

Environment

Feedback loop in Greenland amplified ice melt from warm weather

Last August, rain fell for the first time at the peak of Greenland’s ice sheet, but this had little impact on ice melt compared with other effects

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Life

Polar bears adapting to climate change by hunting on freshwater ice

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Physics

Is life the result of the laws of entropy?

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Technology

Synthetic membrane could lead to self-replicating artificial cells

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Life

Ancient Romans may have triggered decline of the world’s rarest seals

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