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marine life

The centre of the galaxy

Space

Essential molecule for life spotted floating in space for first time

Carbonic acid, an important component of amino acids, has been seen in a cloud of gas near the centre of the Milky Way, which could help us explain how life came to be on Earth

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Why do so many people believe aliens have visited Earth?

Space

Why do so many people believe aliens have visited Earth?

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Life

Shortage of male turtles could be solved by splash of cold seawater

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Pygmy right whales are the smallest of the baleen whales

Life

World's smallest baleen whale is the last of its kind

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Greg Rouse, Scripps Oceanography The Osedax body is visible inside the root of the tooth on the left and the piece emerging from the lower left is the gelatinous tube of the Osedax worm. The worm can retract inside when disturbed so we can see it properly in the picture.

Life

Zombie worms devour shark teeth that fall to the ocean floor

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Why have orcas been damaging and sinking so many boats?

Life

Why have orcas been damaging and sinking so many boats?

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How a radical redefinition of life could help us find aliens

Life

How a radical redefinition of life could help us find aliens

Features

Environment

UK and Ireland suffer one of the most severe marine heatwaves on Earth

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Male harbour seals use complex vocalisations to try to attract females

Life

Male harbour seals may learn vocalisations years before they need them

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Humans could bring microbes into space

Space

Space germs: How can we avoid contaminating other worlds?

Headlines about alien flu from outer space exaggerate the risk of extraterrestrial microbes but we still need to be careful about taking our own germs off-planet, says astrophysicist Erika Nesvold

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Life

1.6-billion-year-old steroids may be traces of earliest complex life

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Life

Whale shark seen bottom feeding for the first time

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Space

Fake alien message sent to Earth to prepare us for first contact

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Life

5000 species not known elsewhere live in area set for deep-sea mining

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