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jellyfish-like siphonophores

Video

Siphonophores' propulsion system is built for speed and efficiency

Researchers have uncovered how siphonophores' propulsion system is built for speed and efficiency

Video

Remote review: An architect in a future Kuala Lumpur comes adrift

Humans

Remote review: An architect in a future Kuala Lumpur comes adrift

Culture

Bacteria picture

Space

Bacteria could survive just under Mars's surface for 280 million years

News

The hunt for habitable ocean worlds beyond our solar system

Space

The hunt for habitable ocean worlds beyond our solar system

Features

LELYSTAD, NETHERLANDS - APRIL 08: The remains of a deer are seen in the Oostvaardersplassen nature reserve on April 08, 2018 in Lelystad, Netherlands. Thousands of animals died during this winter due to overpopulation and a shortage of food. Animal activists feed the horses, deer and cattle by throwing hay over the fences despite a ban by the local authorities. Emotions are running high as many of the animals face starvation with Oostvaardersplassen's feeding policy for large grazers being heavily criticised. (Photo by Pierre Crom/Getty Images)

Environment

The surprising role death plays in the stability of ecosystems

Features

Shipwreck

Environment

Second world war shipwreck is leaking toxic chemicals in the North Sea

News

Dark blue ocean surface seen from underwater. Waves underwater and rays of sunlight shining through

Life

Experiments hint at how molecules essential to all life first arose

News

Hundreds of dead crabs on the beach at Seaton Carew, Hartlepool in 2021 https://twitter.com/12BBYTHESEASIDE/status/1452164992845983744 Paul Grainger (permissions granted)

Environment

What’s causing a mass die-off of crabs on the UK coast?

News

Artist's impression of three planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star

Space

Earth's algae and moss could survive under the light of another star

News

Saturn's moon Enceladus

Space

Enceladus shown to have all six of the essential elements for life

Reanalysis of icy rock grains from a ring of Saturn – fed by ice plumes from its moon Enceladus – has revealed the presence of phosphorus, the only key essential element for life that hadn’t already been spotted

News

Humans

Art of the ocean: How artists have depicted the marine world

Regulars

Life

Self-replicating protein factories are a step towards artificial life

News

Humans

We need to act now to give future generations a better world

Comment

Life

Two new books about sharks reveal how and why we should conserve them

Culture