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Asteroid Bennu carries all the ingredients for life as we know it

We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start life, and researchers have just found the missing ingredient: sugar

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A hand holding glowing prion proteins, from which fossils and microbes emerge.

Life

A sinister, deadly brain protein could reveal the origins of all life

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Physics

We may need a fourth law of thermodynamics for living systems

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seafloor covered with manganese nodules

Environment

Have we found a greener way to do deep-sea mining?

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Sporophyte sample from the space exposure experiment on the ISS

Life

Moss spores survive and germinate after 283-day 'space walk'

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Space

Caves carved by water on Mars may hold signs of past life

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Enceladus’s ocean may be even better for life than we realised

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We may never figure out where interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS came from

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Environment

Toxic algae blighting South Australia could pose a global threat

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Life

Orcas are ganging up on great white sharks to eat their livers

For the first time, video footage has captured orcas in the Gulf of California hunting young great white sharks, using a trick to flip them over, paralise them and get at their energy-rich livers

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Space

Sorry, but interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS really is a comet, not aliens

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Space

The Martian permafrost may be hiding veins of habitable liquid water

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Life

'Sword Dragon' ichthyosaur had enormous eyes and a lethal snout

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Life

See the alien-looking sea slug spotted in UK waters for the first time

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