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Solar flares and cosmic rays may make Proxima b warm enough for life

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Solar flares and cosmic rays may make Proxima b warm enough for life

Proxima Centauri b, a planet orbiting our nearest stellar neighbour, is being blasted with cosmic rays and solar flares – which could make it warm enough to host life

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Abiogenesis

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First self-replicating molecules may have had just two ingredients

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Uploading your brain will leave you exposed to software glitches

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Uploading your brain will leave you exposed to software glitches

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Octopuses were thought to be solitary until a social species turned up

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Octopuses were thought to be solitary until a social species turned up

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A close-up of the 3D printed reconstruction of a female Denisovan,

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AI genome scanner says Denisovans could live until 38 years old

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Exploring the deep ocean and the surprising creatures that live there

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Exploring the deep ocean and the surprising creatures that live there

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The search for aliens: Is anybody out there?

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Imagined Mars settlement

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Should SpaceX be allowed to contaminate Mars with Earth microbes?

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Inflatible green Aliens standing in line

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Alien life could be weirder than our Earthling brains can ever imagine

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mammoth skeleton in museum

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Extinction is a fact of life. Could we stop it – or even reverse it?

The fossil record tells us extinctions happen all the time. The question is what part we play – and whether we could ever bring back creatures like the dinosaurs

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Predators may make prey get smart and grow more brain cells

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When will we hear from aliens? We may already have done so

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The problem with plastic - and how science can solve it

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How to solve our plastic waste problem

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