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Space

Exoplanet plate tectonics: A new frontier in the hunt for alien life

Plate tectonics seems to be crucial for life on Earth, but we’ve never confirmed that it happens on other worlds - that may be about to change

Features

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

News

Life

Orcas have begun wearing salmon hats again – and we may soon know why

News

Brainwave experiment shows minke whales have ultrasonic hearing

Life

Brainwave experiment shows minke whales have ultrasonic hearing

News

2M2WTDW Islands of floating algae. Seaweed Brown Sargassum floating on surface of the water, sun's rays breaking through the thick grass. Underwater shot

Environment

Could seaweed be the ultimate carbon capture solution?

Comment

The Taurus molecular cloud

Space

Complex form of carbon spotted outside solar system for first time

News

The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?

Mind

The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?

Features

Illustration of asteroids with geysers

Space

Freeze-thaw cycle helps asteroids ferry molecules of life to planets

News

Space

Search for alien transmissions in promising star system draws a blank

News

Manta ray {Manta birostris} from below, Sulu-sulawesi seas, Indo-Pacific

Life

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

From colonialism to AI, this Booker-longlisted novel urges us to wake up to how we treat wild creatures and places

Culture

Society

91av recommends Karl Ove Knausgaard's novel The Third Realm

Culture

Space

Two new books explore how UFOs captured the world’s imagination

Culture

Video

Inside NASA's lab exploring conditions for life on other worlds

Video

Earth

A dramatic twist to the Gaia hypothesis

Culture