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The FRAMe Project functional model in comparison to the Fragment A visual and the AMRP X-Ray images. The central large gear-b1 with the four arms is visible. The Fragments of the Mechanism are exhibited in National Archaeological Museum of Athens, Greece.

Space

Ancient computer may have had its clock set to 23 December 178 BC

The Antikythera mechanism, often called the world’s first computer could calculate the timing of cosmic events – and now we may know the date it was calibrated to

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image of message to extra terrestrials

Space

Scientists want to play chess with aliens as soon as we can find them

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We must recognise science’s unsung global pioneers to alter its future

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We must recognise science’s unsung global pioneers to alter its future

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DJWYNK Molecular Cuisine mango jelly on white background

Humans

How to perform the culinary technique of spherification at home

Regulars

sponge mound

Environment

Watch first video of a possible rare sponge reef found near California

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A cluster of deep sea octopus Muusoctopus robustus at Davidson Seamount, off California.

Life

Deep-sea ‘octopus garden’ has warm water that speeds egg hatching

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Space

Mars may have been habitable millions of years later than we thought

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The crater and its extremely harsh lake, Laguna Caliente, dominated by a single genus of extremophile Acidiphilium bacteria

Space

Bacteria survive extremes that may have existed in ancient Mars lakes

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Bubbles coming out of a cave in the pacific seabed, Japan.

Life

Microbes survive deep below the seafloor at temperatures up to 120°C

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Hot water drilling

Environment

Remarkable trove of species found living beneath Antarctic ice shelf

The variety of species found below an Antarctic ice shelf shows that life can survive in hostile, food-poor environments for thousands of years

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Life

How the shimmering secrets of iridescence could keep us cool

Features

Environment

Race to start commercial deep-sea mining puts ecosystems at risk

Analysis

Life

Living robots made from frog cells can replicate themselves in a dish

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Life

Why haven't we heard from aliens? There is a reason for the silence

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