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Adrian Tchaikovsky: "Could life have gone any other way?"

The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a prison planet where the biology is very different to that on Earth

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A fluffy longhorn beetle

Life

A festival of stunning animal pictures from 2024

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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

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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?

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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

Cracks running through samples of asteroid Ryugu were probably formed by the repeated thawing and freezing of water inside it, which could have helped asteroids like this carry the building blocks of life to early Earth

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Space

Search for alien transmissions in promising star system draws a blank

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Life

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

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New Scientist 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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