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Planets that look alike might be a sign of spacefaring aliens

We don’t know what alien life might look like, but if other civilisations can colonise multiple worlds, we might see planets that look unusually similar

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3d rendered medically accurate illustration of amino acids

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Life’s vital chemistry may have begun in hot, cracked rock

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Europa’s seafloor may be impenetrable and inhospitable to life

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Environment

Engineers are diverting Mississippi river to restore Louisiana’s coast

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Floods in New Orleans after a storm surge from Hurricane Sally in 2020

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US coastal cities face higher 2050 flood risk because they are sinking

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cross-section through Europa

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Europa may have less oxygen to fuel life in its seas than we thought

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How our golden age of asteroid exploration could reveal life's origins

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How our golden age of asteroid exploration could reveal life's origins

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Why space dust is key to everything from star birth to life on Earth

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Habitable ocean world K2-18b may actually be inhospitable gas planet

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Environment

Earthquakes hastened sea rise in Pacific islands by sinking the ground

Projections of flood risk due to sea level rise on the Samoan Islands underestimate the rate at which the islands are sinking after two earthquakes hit in 2009

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Why we're finally on the cusp of finding exomoons around other planets

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Life

Does trophy hunting actually help animal conservation?

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Chemistry

Crucial chemical for life can form in conditions found on early Earth

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Cosmic dust may have been crucial to the beginnings of life on Earth

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