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A fluffy longhorn beetle

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A festival of stunning animal pictures from 2024

The past 12 months have seen animals of all shapes, sizes and colours strut their stuff – here are just a few of the best pictures from the year

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2FYMTPP Pacific Ring of Fire, illustration

Space

Exoplanet plate tectonics: A new frontier in the hunt for alien life

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Image of Mars showing the Acidalia Planitia as a darker region towards the top right

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Life on Mars could be surviving in an area deep underground

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Orcas have begun wearing salmon hats again – and we may soon know why

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Brainwave experiment shows minke whales have ultrasonic hearing

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Brainwave experiment shows minke whales have ultrasonic hearing

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Heart cockle shells

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Heart-shaped mollusc has windows that work like fibre optics

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World's largest coral discovered by accident

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World’s largest coral is 300 years old and was discovered by accident

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2M2WTDW Islands of floating algae. Seaweed Brown Sargassum floating on surface of the water, sun's rays breaking through the thick grass. Underwater shot

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Could seaweed be the ultimate carbon capture solution?

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The Taurus molecular cloud

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Complex form of carbon spotted outside solar system for first time

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The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?

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The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?

What life is and how the mind works fall within the compass of one bold concept. But critics say that by attempting to explain everything, it may end up explaining nothing

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Two injured comb jellies can merge to form one individual

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Freeze-thaw cycle helps asteroids ferry molecules of life to planets

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A shark survived being stabbed through the head by a swordfish

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Environment

Here's how coral reefs might survive hotter, more acidic oceans

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