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common starfish, common European seastar (Asterias rubens), at an underwater plant, view from above - Image ID: 2M0FA0C (RM)

Life

Marine heatwaves could wipe out all common sea stars by 2100

Simulations of ocean warming show that future marine heatwaves that last more than 13 days would kill off all of the world's common sea stars

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Illustration of a group of ichthyosaurs

Life

Ichthyosaurs used a barren region of the ocean as an ancient nursery

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)

Space

LIGO may be able to detect alien warp drives using gravitational waves

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Spotlight on plankton, the ocean's fascinating, bite-sized creatures

Life

Spotlight on plankton, the ocean's fascinating, bite-sized creatures

Regulars

The Murchison meteorite

Chemistry

Building blocks for life may be able to form in radioactive meteorites

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Pair of vaquita sighted during 2008 survey in Gulf of California

Life

Mexico’s latest plan to save endangered vaquitas could backfire

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jellyfish-like siphonophores

Video

Siphonophores' propulsion system is built for speed and efficiency

Video

Remote review: An architect in a future Kuala Lumpur comes adrift

Humans

Remote review: An architect in a future Kuala Lumpur comes adrift

Culture

Bacteria picture

Space

Bacteria could survive just under Mars's surface for 280 million years

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The hunt for habitable ocean worlds beyond our solar system

Space

The hunt for habitable ocean worlds beyond our solar system

Astronomers think that planets covered in water, with oceans hundreds of metres deep, could be relatively common in our galaxy. Now the race is on to find one

Features

Environment

The surprising role death plays in the stability of ecosystems

Features

Environment

Second world war shipwreck is leaking toxic chemicals in the North Sea

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Life

Experiments hint at how molecules essential to all life first arose

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Environment

What’s causing a mass die-off of crabs on the UK coast?

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