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Saturn's moon Enceladus

Space

Enceladus shown to have all six of the essential elements for life

Reanalysis of icy rock grains from a ring of Saturn – fed by ice plumes from its moon Enceladus – has revealed the presence of phosphorus, the only key essential element for life that hadn’t already been spotted

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A coloured scanning electron micrograph of a cell (green) infected with the omicron variant of the coronavirus (purple)

Health

The omicron coronavirus variant may protect against flu

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Humans

Art of the ocean: How artists have depicted the marine world

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Environment

How to make leaf mould to nourish your garden

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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

More than half of people who are infected with omicron may be unaware they are carrying the virus

Health

More than half of people infected with omicron may not know it

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A person wearing a mask sits on a tram in Krakow, Poland, in May

Health

How big a covid-19 wave could omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 cause?

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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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Humans

How science can help you bake a loaf of bread that stays softer longer

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Technology

Synthetic membrane could lead to self-replicating artificial cells

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Humans

How to analyse your garden soil and choose the plants to suit it

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Life

Ancient Romans may have triggered decline of the world’s rarest seals

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