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Life

Earth's first life may have fuelled itself with a metal metabolism

The first living organisms had to make essential carbon-based chemicals, and they may have done it by harnessing the chemical power of metals like nickel

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Life's other mystery: Why biology's building blocks are so lop-sided

Life

Life's other mystery: Why biology's building blocks are so lop-sided

Features

The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses

Life

The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses

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Great Barrier Reef coral

Environment

The Great Barrier Reef has suffered its most widespread bleaching yet

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Newly discovered species found deep in the ocean contains microplastic

Life

Newly discovered species found deep in the ocean contains microplastic

Regulars

The coronavirus owes its name to the crown-like projections that encircle the capsid.

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Viruses

A demon from Doom

Technology

Doom Eternal review: A welcome adrenaline-inducing distraction

Culture

Mars may once have had right conditions for RNA to develop into life

Space

Mars may once have had right conditions for RNA to develop into life

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Solar flares and cosmic rays may make Proxima b warm enough for life

Space

Solar flares and cosmic rays may make Proxima b warm enough for life

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Abiogenesis

Life

First self-replicating molecules may have had just two ingredients

A mixture of two carbon-based chemicals can spontaneously form molecules that can copy themselves, hinting at how life may have begun on Earth

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Humans

Uploading your brain will leave you exposed to software glitches

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Life

Some starfish-like animals see without eyes by changing body colour

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Life

As our oceans become more acidic they may corrode the skins of sharks

News

Life

Octopuses were thought to be solitary until a social species turned up

Features