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Pollution on other worlds may show advanced alien life

A NASA telescope should be able to sniff the atmospheres of Earth-sized worlds for industrial gases like CFCs – a sign of civilisation

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Build a stable wormhole with the help of dark aliens

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EU hatches legal plan to fight invasive species

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Battle-hardened oyster may help toughen combat shields

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Battle-hardened oyster may help toughen combat shields

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Sensor backpacks for oysters say when they are happy

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Sensor backpacks for oysters say when they are happy

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Anybody out there? The how and what of alien life

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Anybody out there? The how and what of alien life

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First exomoon glimpsed – 1800 light years from Earth

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First exomoon glimpsed – 1800 light years from Earth

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Alien life could have basked in big bang's afterglow

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Astrophile: Europa's choppy ocean looks friendly to life

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Astrophile: Europa's choppy ocean looks friendly to life

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Fake planets reveal distance to Earth's nearest twin

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Exoplanet hunters may find ET by glut of alien corpses

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Worm turns from zero to climate change hero

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Martian soup may have been tasty to early life

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