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Possible signs of ancient life on Mars are rich in complex carbon

An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the surface of rocks that resemble traces of microbial activity

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Complex life on Earth may last 500 million years longer than expected

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Walking shark found in Papua New Guinea is new to science

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Arctic Ocean reaches tipping point that could be dire for marine life

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Has the answer to life's origins been hiding in our cells all along?

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Has the answer to life's origins been hiding in our cells all along?

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The one film to watch before seeing Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day

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The one film to watch before seeing Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day

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Millions of fossil whale bones found in deep-ocean ‘necropolis’

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Moorish idol (Zanclus cornutus) swimming past a reef covered with Coral sea fans including (Melithaea sp.) and (Pseudopterogorgia sp.), Soft corals (Dendronephthya sp), (Chironephthya sp.) and (Scleronephthya sp.) and Branching cup corals (Tubastraea micranthus). Many different sponges and tunicates are also seen, as are many coral reef fishes, including Anthias and Damselfish, Raja Ampat, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean

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The last-ditch plan to save coral reefs from utter destruction

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The book jacket of Togetherness by Rowan Hooper

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New Scientist recommends Togetherness, a radical new view of life

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How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – and aliens

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How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – and aliens

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun

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The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life

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First test of CO2 removal with green sand finds no harm to marine life

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US government releases huge batch of UFO files

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Coral reefs on a remote archipelago shrugged off a massive heatwave

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