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Life

Does trophy hunting actually help animal conservation?

It may seem counterintuitive, but trophy hunting leads to a lot of land being protected instead of being used for agriculture or logging – which can ultimately benefit animals

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Chemistry

Crucial chemical for life can form in conditions found on early Earth

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Cosmic dust may have been crucial to the beginnings of life on Earth

Space

Cosmic dust may have been crucial to the beginnings of life on Earth

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Pitcairn Islands

Environment

What a trip to far-flung islands taught me about protecting our oceans

Comment

Could mysterious marine fungi save us from antibiotic resistance?

Environment

Could mysterious marine fungi save us from antibiotic resistance?

Features

Life

Weird anglerfish mating strategy may have helped them evolve

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Life

Why bioabundance is just as important as biodiversity

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Space

What we know about the stars where NASA will hunt for alien life

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Life

Traces of ancient life reveal a 3.4-billion-year-old ecosystem

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Venus

Space

Molecules vital for life could survive in Venus’s acid clouds

Venus is wrapped in clouds that are rich in concentrated sulphuric acid, and we now know that several of the amino acids and nucleic acids used by life could survive in them

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Space

'This century is special': Martin Rees on the vast span of time

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Life

The science of why spending time in nature is just so good for us

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Physics

The laws of physics were broken in 2023 - by sperm

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Life

Life may be less chaotic than we thought, say physicists

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