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

As the sun expands over the coming billions of years, Earth will become inhospitable to any life more complex than a microbe – but that might take longer than we thought

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Walking shark found in Papua New Guinea is new to science

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Environment

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

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Life

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

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Space

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 Ů��С��Ƶ 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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Space

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

A decade ago, we discovered an exceptionally exciting exoplanet that could be the best candidate for hosting alien life. Now we’re about to find out if it really is

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Environment

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

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Space

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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Life

First glimpse of sperm whale birth reveals teamwork to support newborn

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