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Don't forget birds and bats when renovating or building new homes

As newer homes are built or older homes are renovated, empty attic spaces are disappearing – this eliminates a vital refuge for birds and bats during a biodiversity crisis

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Quantum biology: New clues on how life might make use of weird physics

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Environment

To rescue biodiversity, we need a better way to measure it

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Space

Dozens of stars show signs of hosting advanced alien civilisations

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Illustration of life forms on a hypothetical planet with a slightly lower mass than the Earth. It has shallow seas and extreme tides due to its large moon (thin crescent at left). The vegetation is translucent which allows the light to shine through, so it seems to be glowing, due to it being backlit in this image.

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The hunt for alien planets and extraterrestrial life

Culture

Eruption of Strokkur Geysir in Iceland

Life

Protocells on early Earth may have been formed by squeezing geysers

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Space

Planets that look alike might be a sign of spacefaring aliens

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Life

Life’s vital chemistry may have begun in hot, cracked rock

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Space

Europa’s seafloor may be impenetrable and inhospitable to life

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cross-section through Europa

Space

Europa may have less oxygen to fuel life in its seas than we thought

The ocean on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is one of the best places we have found to search for alien life, but it might have less oxygen than researchers had thought

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Space

How our golden age of asteroid exploration could reveal life's origins

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Space

Why space dust is key to everything from star birth to life on Earth

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Space

Habitable ocean world K2-18b may actually be inhospitable gas planet

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Space

Why we're finally on the cusp of finding exomoons around other planets

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