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A fluffy longhorn beetle

Life

A festival of stunning animal pictures from 2024

The past 12 months have seen animals of all shapes, sizes and colours strut their stuff – here are just a few of the best pictures from the year

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2FYMTPP Pacific Ring of Fire, illustration

Space

Exoplanet plate tectonics: A new frontier in the hunt for alien life

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Image of Mars showing the Acidalia Planitia as a darker region towards the top right

Space

Life on Mars could be surviving in an area deep underground

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Life

Orcas have begun wearing salmon hats again – and we may soon know why

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Brainwave experiment shows minke whales have ultrasonic hearing

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Brainwave experiment shows minke whales have ultrasonic hearing

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2M2WTDW Islands of floating algae. Seaweed Brown Sargassum floating on surface of the water, sun's rays breaking through the thick grass. Underwater shot

Environment

Could seaweed be the ultimate carbon capture solution?

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The Taurus molecular cloud

Space

Complex form of carbon spotted outside solar system for first time

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The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?

Mind

The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?

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Illustration of asteroids with geysers

Space

Freeze-thaw cycle helps asteroids ferry molecules of life to planets

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Space

Search for alien transmissions in promising star system draws a blank

Astronomers listened for radio signals emanating from planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system, but found no evidence of any interplanetary communications

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Life

Richard Powers's new novel is a beautiful love letter to our oceans

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�鶹��ý recommends Karl Ove Knausgaard's novel The Third Realm

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Environment

Antarctica’s 'doomsday' glacier is heading for catastrophic collapse

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Space

Two new books explore how UFOs captured the world’s imagination

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