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Goonhilly Earth Station

Space

Group that wants to contact aliens will transmit to TRAPPIST-1 system

METI, an organisation aiming to make contact with other civilisations, will send out its second message from Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station in Cornwall, UK

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Anchovies

Life

Anchovies stirring up the sea may be influencing ocean mixing

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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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RRS Sir David Attenborough completes ice trials in Antarctica

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RRS Sir David Attenborough completes ice trials in Antarctica

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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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Rising seas could submerge Rio and Jakarta by 2100 – what can we do?

Environment

Rising seas could submerge Rio and Jakarta by 2100 – what can we do?

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NWA 7034

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

It was thought that microbes in sediments beneath the seafloor died above 80°C, but scientists have found some that can survive up to 120°C and possibly higher temperatures

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Environment

Remarkable trove of species found living beneath Antarctic ice shelf

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Life

How the shimmering secrets of iridescence could keep us cool

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Environment

Collapse of doomsday glacier in Antarctica could begin within a decade

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Environment

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

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