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Life

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

Paul de Gelder's Shark and David Shiffman's Why Sharks Matter aim to turn the all-too-common public panic about the predator into interest in their conservation

Culture

DNA

Physics

Is life the result of the laws of entropy?

News

artificial membrane

Technology

Synthetic membrane could lead to self-replicating artificial cells

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Monk Seal, Monachus monachus, Alonissos Island, GreeceMonk seal, Monachus monachus, which enters and swims in the sea. Endangered species. Alonissos Island, Sporades Islands, Greece (Photo by Cristian Umili/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

Life

Ancient Romans may have triggered decline of the world’s rarest seals

News

A dolphin rubs against medicinal coral

Video

Dolphins queue up to rub against corals with antibacterial properties

Video

Colony of Streptomyces coelicolor

Life

A soil bacterium forms multicellular organisms with specialised roles

News

Vaquita or Gulf of California Harbor Porpoise (Phocoena sinus), caught as by-catch, Baja California, Mexico, critically endangered species

Life

Vaquitas could breed their way back from the brink of extinction

News

Huge flightless swan roamed the ancient seas with a cradle on its back

Life

Huge flightless swan roamed the ancient seas with a cradle on its back

News

How the ‘blue acceleration’ is supercharging ocean exploitation

Environment

How the ‘blue acceleration’ is supercharging ocean exploitation

Features

Goonhilly Earth Station

Space

Group that wants to contact aliens will transmit to TRAPPIST-1 system

METI, an organisation aiming to make contact with other civilisations, will send out its second message from Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station in Cornwall, UK

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Life

Anchovies stirring up the sea may be influencing ocean mixing

News

Space

Scientists want to play chess with aliens as soon as we can find them

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Environment

Watch first video of a possible rare sponge reef found near California

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Life

Deep-sea ‘octopus garden’ has warm water that speeds egg hatching

News