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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

Vast oceans within the moons of Jupiter and Saturn could be hidden hotspots for life. NASA astrobiologist Kevin Hand reveals his plans to find it

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Squid

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Genetically altered human cells can vary their transparency like squid

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The strange physics of why blue jays look blue even though they aren't

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The strange physics of why blue jays look blue even though they aren't

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Bleached coral

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Algae transplant could protect coral reefs threatened by warming seas

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Seaweed

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Kelp is coming: How seaweed could prevent catastrophic climate change

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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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What lies beneath: diving to the UK’s answer to the Great Barrier Reef

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What lies beneath: diving to the UK’s answer to the Great Barrier Reef

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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

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The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses

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The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses

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Bats

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Bats can learn to copy sounds and it may teach us about human speech

Pale spear-nosed bats can learn to alter their calls to mimic different sounds – a rare skill that could help us understand the biology of human speech and language

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Environment

The Great Barrier Reef has suffered its most widespread bleaching yet

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Life

It turns out loads of frogs and salamanders are fluorescent

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Technology

Cyborg grasshoppers have been engineered to sniff out explosives

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Humans

Teen born without half her brain has above average reading skills

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