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alien life

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

A series of chemistry experiments suggest that a molecule that provides energy for all living cells, called ATP, could have been forged in geothermal vents in the ocean or created in freshwater ponds

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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

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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?

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artificial membrane

Technology

Synthetic membrane could lead to self-replicating artificial cells

A synthetic membrane that contains key proteins used in cell division could one day help artificial cells replicate themselves

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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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Life

Vaquitas could breed their way back from the brink of extinction

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