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Life may be less chaotic than we thought, say physicists

According to a long-standing idea, life exists at the edge of chaos, meaning it is sensitive enough to respond to small environmental changes. But an analysis of processes that occur inside cells challenges the idea

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This illustration shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft diving through the plume of Saturn's moon Enceladus, in 2015

Space

Cyanide in the ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus could be good for life

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Space

Mercury has salt glaciers that could provide the conditions for life

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Space

Our hunt for alien life needs solid guidelines for clear-cut success

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Space

How excited should we be by signs of life spotted on alien worlds?

Features

Hair seems to help shrimp move through water

Life

Hairy legs make you swim better – if you're a shrimp

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Space

Comets may bring ingredients for life most easily to clustered planets

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An illustration of the early surface of Earth with a volcano erupting in the background.

Life

How we will discover the mysterious origins of life once and for all

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A male lion and a cub

Life

Do animals know that sex leads to babies?

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Earth

Nearly all mammals will go extinct in 250 million years as Earth warms

If humans still exist millions of years from now, they will face inhospitably warm conditions on a supercontinent centred at the equator. Most land mammals won't be able to survive

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Life

The strange plant that just might be the worst smell on the planet

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Space

How the JUICE mission will look for habitability on Jupiter's moons

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Life

The delightfully bizarre creatures that live near deep-sea vents

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Life

Photos capture mission to rescue seagrass meadows in the the Baltic

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