Environment
The endangered giants that still lurk in the world鈥檚 biggest rivers
The world's fresh waters used to teem with enormous fish. Their numbers are dwindling, but it is not too late to save the river monsters from extinction
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Life
Why we’re in for a long wait to hear from intelligent aliens
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Humans
The theory of evolution is a vibrant, living entity still in its prime
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Environment
Wildfire nightmare captured in harrowing image of California burning
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Life
Beautiful blooming phytoplankton create swirling art in the Baltic Sea
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Deep-sea microbes survive on less energy than we thought possible
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Life
A radical new theory rewrites the story of how life on Earth began
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Panspermia
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Butterflies are showing us how wildlife will cope with climate change
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Life
Hundreds of thousands of slime moulds can merge together to find food
These strange, mushroom-like structures are the reproductive phase of a type of slime mould, complex amoebae that feed on bacteria on forest floors
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Life
First life on Earth may actually have been built from both RNA and DNA
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Life
What is life and how did it evolve? We’re getting closer to the answer
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Life
Earth’s first life may have fuelled itself with a metal metabolism
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Life
Life’s other mystery: Why biology’s building blocks are so lop-sided
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