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origins of life

A dolphin rubs against medicinal coral

Video

Dolphins queue up to rub against corals with antibacterial properties

Dolphins that rub themselves against corals and sea sponges with antibacterial properties could be treating their wounds and skin diseases

Video

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Humans

How to make your own yogurt

Regulars

Colony of Streptomyces coelicolor

Life

A soil bacterium forms multicellular organisms with specialised roles

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Vaquita or Gulf of California Harbor Porpoise (Phocoena sinus), caught as by-catch, Baja California, Mexico, critically endangered species

Life

Vaquitas could breed their way back from the brink of extinction

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Huge flightless swan roamed the ancient seas with a cradle on its back

Life

Huge flightless swan roamed the ancient seas with a cradle on its back

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How the ‘blue acceleration’ is supercharging ocean exploitation

Environment

How the ‘blue acceleration’ is supercharging ocean exploitation

Features

Goonhilly Earth Station

Space

Group that wants to contact aliens will transmit to TRAPPIST-1 system

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Anchovies

Life

Anchovies stirring up the sea may be influencing ocean mixing

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The FRAMe Project functional model in comparison to the Fragment A visual and the AMRP X-Ray images. The central large gear-b1 with the four arms is visible. The Fragments of the Mechanism are exhibited in National Archaeological Museum of Athens, Greece.

Space

Ancient computer may have had its clock set to 23 December 178 BC

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image of message to extra terrestrials

Space

51¶¯Âþs want to play chess with aliens as soon as we can find them

51¶¯Âþs have designed a new message to spark conversation with alien civilisations, and that suggest a game of chess could keep the discussion going

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Comment

We must recognise science’s unsung global pioneers to alter its future

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Humans

How to perform the culinary technique of spherification at home

Regulars

Environment

Watch first video of a possible rare sponge reef found near California

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Life

Deep-sea ‘octopus garden’ has warm water that speeds egg hatching

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