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A snail feasting on the excrement of a sea lily

Life

Sea stars filmed hunting squid and squabbling over eating it

Snails feast on sea lily faeces in the latest videos from submersibles diving in never-before-explored parts of the ocean

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meteorites landing on early Earth

Space

Microbes might thrive after crash-landing on board a meteorite

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Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on

Life

Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on

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Martian surface

Space

Martian life must be rare as free energy source remains untapped

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SETI

Life

We still haven’t heard from aliens - here’s why we might never

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LHS 1140b

Space

The five best exoplanets in the galaxy to check for alien life

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Cassini finds final ingredient for alien life in Enceladus’s sea

Space

Cassini finds final ingredient for alien life in Enceladus’s sea

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The venomous, fanged blenny Meiacanthus grammistes, in the flesh

Life

Tiny fish’s venom makes predators zone out and release them

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An octopus holding a jellyfish in its grasp

Life

Giant octopus wears jellyfish cape after it devours its owner

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space cartoon

Space

A little less ET, a little more astrophysics, if you please

The role of science is to rule out the boring and tedious before we embrace the extraordinary, like alien signals or "megastructures", says Geraint Lewis

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Space

TRAPPIST-1 worlds are close enough for life to hop between them

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Space

Exoplanet discovery: Seven Earth-size exoplanets may have water

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Life

Cannibalistic deep-sea crabs groom each other like chimpanzees

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Life

Comb jelly videos are rewriting the history of your anus

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