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Life

Extinction is a fact of life. Could we stop it – or even reverse it?

The fossil record tells us extinctions happen all the time. The question is what part we play – and whether we could ever bring back creatures like the dinosaurs

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Life

Predators may make prey get smart and grow more brain cells

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Avi Loeb

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When will we hear from aliens? We may already have done so

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Liz Bonnin at Â鶹´«Ã½ Live

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The problem with plastic - and how science can solve it

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How to solve our plastic waste problem

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How to solve our plastic waste problem

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Javier Martin-Torres

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Life on Mars: Could we build a home on the Red Planet?

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Javier Martin-Torres

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Life on Mars: Could we build a home on the Red Planet?

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Fighting plastic pollution in British waters: How to make a difference

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Fighting plastic pollution in British waters: How to make a difference

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Jon Copley

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Join a virtual 6000km trek across the deep ocean

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Chris Budd

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Sea sums: How we're keeping whales safe using maths

History, cake and an outrageous use of Pythagoras’s theorem feature in mathematician Chris Budd’s explanation of one serious way we are keeping whales safe

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Life

Why the hunt for alien life is under way far beneath Earth's surface

Features

Life

Life may have begun with simple genes made out of urine

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Life

The key to a long life may be genes that protect against stress

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Space

BBC coverage of the Martian invasion will follow shortly

Culture

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