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TOP IMAGE - Jason deCaires Taylor, Rubicon, 2016. Picture credit: @jasondecairestaylor(page 181) Stainless steel, pH-neutral cement, basalt and aggregates,installation view, Museo Atl?ntico, Las Coloradas, Lanzarote, Atlantic Ocean

Humans

Art of the ocean: How artists have depicted the marine world

From Jason deCaires Taylor's underwater statues, walking to oblivion, to Carl Chun's detailed illustration of an octopus, a new book explores how our oceans have inspired art through the centuries

Regulars

Illustration of a ribosome

Life

Self-replicating protein factories are a step towards artificial life

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aerial view of a Bull Shark (Carcharhinus leucas). reefs of the Sea of Cortez, Pacific ocean. Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The world's aquarium.; Shutterstock ID 623521508; purchase_order: 10 Sept 2022 issue; job: Photo; client: NS; other:

Life

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

Culture

Megalodon

Life

Ancient megalodon shark could eat a whale in just a few bites

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Indo-Pacific sponge Chelonaplysilla sp.

Life

Sponges can ‘sneeze’ and other sea creatures eat their mucus

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Five green slender pitcher plants are suspended on vines

Life

Pitcher plants use raindrop impacts to fling insects into their trap

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3D shape of a protein

Life

AlphaFold: Why DeepMind’s protein-folding AI is transformational

Analysis

Fin whale in front of iceberg

Life

Southern fin whales have recovered to large numbers in the Antarctic

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A snapping shrimp (Alpheus heterochaelis) at night

Life

Snapping shrimps have helmets to ward off shock waves from their claws

News

3 How Do We Sense Time? Mechanical brain, conceptual image. Composite image of coloured medical imagery of a human brain and skull, with cogs and gears representing concepts such as memory, time and mechanical brains. The imagery includes 3D computed tomography (CT) scans of the skull and 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the brain. The scans are of a 30-year-old woman.

Mind

How do we sense time? The brain cells that order our memories

Recent studies suggest there is not one part of the brain dedicated to measuring duration, as there is for senses like taste and smell. Instead, the passage of time is tracked by a network of “time cells”

Features

Life

Australian seagrass has cloned itself to cover 180 kilometres of coast

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Mathematics

A rethink of cause and effect could help when things get complicated

Features

Life

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

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Life

Rubbing against coral seems to be a popular skin treatment in dolphins

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