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An octopus holding a jellyfish in its grasp

Life

Giant octopus wears jellyfish cape after it devours its owner

A rarely-seen deep-sea octopus eats zooplankton and a gelatinous, low-calorie food – jellyfish – and may use them as tools to catch food and feed through

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Space

A little less ET, a little more astrophysics, if you please

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Artists impression of an alien skyscape with nearby planets large in the sky

Space

TRAPPIST-1 worlds are close enough for life to hop between them

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TRAPPIST-1 seen from one of its 7 planets

Space

Exoplanet discovery: Seven Earth-size exoplanets may have water

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Deep sea crabs clean each other

Life

Cannibalistic deep-sea crabs groom each other like chimpanzees

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Life

Comb jelly videos are rewriting the history of your anus

Features

Hubble rounds up the first worlds we’ll check for alien life

Space

Hubble rounds up the first worlds we’ll check for alien life

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Space

The world in 2076: We still haven't found alien life

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The science behind the twisting alien linguistics of <em>Arrival</em>

Space

The science behind the twisting alien linguistics of Arrival

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Transparent comb jelly

Life

Swarm of voracious comb jellies threatens fish off Italian coast

The notorious sea creature shipped around by ballast waters devastated Black Sea fisheries in the 1990s. Now it's found a new home off the coast of Italy

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Space

Biggest radio telescope on Earth ready to receive alien signals

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Earth

Global treaty set to halt invasive species ravaging our oceans

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Life

Spoiler alert: Why strange signals are never really from aliens

Analysis

Life

Mysterious signal unlikely to be aliens after SETI draws a blank

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