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Fairy lantern flower has a gaping ‘mouth’ and saps energy from fungi

Fairy lanterns (Thismia) are parasitic plants that steal nutrients from fungi – and a newly discovered species has hooded flowers unlike those seen among known species

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Deepest land-dwelling microbes found at bottom of 5km hole in China

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Environment

Ten conservation success stories when species came back from the brink

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Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet ‘shouldn’t be there’

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Water may be even more crucial to life than we thought

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The curious case of the “glacier mice” that seem to dance on ice

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Humans

Physics might create a backdoor to an afterlife – but don’t bank on it

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Humans

How nature, nurture and sheer randomness combine to make a unique you

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Humans

You are stardust: The long view of when your existence really began

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Sciencw with Sam: Origins
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The search for the origin of life: From panspermia to primordial soup

Did life begin suddenly in a chemical big bang, or did the ingredients come together slowly, bit by bit from a primordial soup?  Science with sam explains

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Alien life may exist on Venus but intelligence could be harder to find

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Missions to confirm signs of life on Venus are already in the works

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Space

To understand signs of life on Venus we must do chemistry on Earth

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Environment

The endangered giants that still lurk in the world’s biggest rivers

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