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Shipwreck

Environment

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

A German warship, the V-1302 John Mahn, was sunk in 1942 and is currently leaking toxic chemical and heavy metals in the North Sea

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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

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Life

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

Culture

DNA

Physics

Is life the result of the laws of entropy?

Nearly 80 years ago, Erwin Schrödinger used the physics of the day to try to understand the origins of life. Now, Stephon Alexander and Salvador Almagro-Moreno try to do the same with modern science

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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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Video

Dolphins queue up to rub against corals with antibacterial properties

Video

Life

A soil bacterium forms multicellular organisms with specialised roles

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