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How many planets have been discovered?

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How many planets have been discovered?

So far we've found thousands of exoplanets, and this number is rising fast.
Hundreds of thousands of slime moulds can merge together to find food

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Hundreds of thousands of slime moulds can merge together to find food

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Butterflies are showing us how wildlife will cope with climate change

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Butterflies are showing us how wildlife will cope with climate change

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This week’s new questions

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This week’s new questions

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Why icy moons like Europa are our best bet for finding alien life

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Why icy moons like Europa are our best bet for finding alien life

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First life on Earth may actually have been built from both RNA and DNA

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First life on Earth may actually have been built from both RNA and DNA

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What is life and how did it evolve? We're getting closer to the answer

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What is life and how did it evolve? We're getting closer to the answer

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We know the best spots to look for alien life – can we get to them?

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We know the best spots to look for alien life – can we get to them?

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Earth's first life may have fuelled itself with a metal metabolism

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Life's other mystery: Why biology's building blocks are so lop-sided

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Life's other mystery: Why biology's building blocks are so lop-sided

Most molecules exist in mirror-image forms, and yet life prefers one over the other. How this bias began and why it persisted is one of the most baffling questions in biology – but now we have an answer

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The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses

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Newly discovered species found deep in the ocean contains microplastic

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Doom Eternal review: A welcome adrenaline-inducing distraction

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