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Weird anglerfish mating strategy may have helped them evolve

Tiny male anglerfish fuse their bodies into the larger females, and this strange strategy may have helped the fish diversify widely in the deep sea

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Why bioabundance is just as important as biodiversity

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What we know about the stars where NASA will hunt for alien life

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Traces of ancient life reveal a 3.4-billion-year-old ecosystem

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Venus

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Molecules vital for life could survive in Venus’s acid clouds

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Martin Rees - Astronomer Royal

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'This century is special': Martin Rees on the vast span of time

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The science of why spending time in nature is just so good for us

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Physics

The laws of physics were broken in 2023 - by sperm

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Escherichia coli

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Life may be less chaotic than we thought, say physicists

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This illustration shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft diving through the plume of Saturn's moon Enceladus, in 2015

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Cyanide in the ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus could be good for life

Hydrogen cyanide, ethane and traces of methanol are present in the water spewing from Enceladus's ocean – all of which could be building blocks of life

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Mercury has salt glaciers that could provide the conditions for life

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Our hunt for alien life needs solid guidelines for clear-cut success

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Space

How excited should we be by signs of life spotted on alien worlds?

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Hairy legs make you swim better – if you're a shrimp

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