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Wildfire nightmare captured in harrowing image of California burning

Environment

Wildfire nightmare captured in harrowing image of California burning

This image is a terrible reminder of the US wildfire crisis. Here it rages by California's Bidwell Bar Bridge, which spans Oroville Lake in Butte County

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Meet NASA's latest Mars Rover: Will Perseverance find life in 2021?

Meet NASA's latest Mars Rover: Will Perseverance find life in 2021?

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Life on Venus? Everything you need to know about the big discovery

Space

Life on Venus? Everything you need to know about the big discovery

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Venus

Space

Have we spotted alien life floating in the clouds of Venus?

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Beautiful blooming phytoplankton create swirling art in the Baltic Sea

Life

Beautiful blooming phytoplankton create swirling art in the Baltic Sea

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Silicon Valley billionaires want to geoengineer the world's oceans

Earth

Silicon Valley billionaires want to geoengineer the world's oceans

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Strange worlds unlike Earth may be our best bet to find alien life

Life

Strange worlds unlike Earth may be our best bet to find alien life

Features

Netflix's John Was Trying to Contact Aliens is amazing and moving

Humans

Netflix's John Was Trying to Contact Aliens is amazing and moving

Culture

seafloor

Life

Deep-sea microbes survive on less energy than we thought possible

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A radical new theory rewrites the story of how life on Earth began

Life

A radical new theory rewrites the story of how life on Earth began

It has long been thought that the ingredients for life came together slowly, bit by bit. Now there is evidence it all happened at once in a chemical big bang

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Panspermia

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Goldilocks zone

Life

Marine kaleidoscope shows the beauty of coral reefs

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Question

How many planets have been discovered?

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