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Environment

Great Barrier Reef now has 'very poor' outlook due to climate change

Only global action on climate change can save the Great Barrier Reef, according to a government report that downgrades its outlook to “very poor”

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night sky artwork

Space

Are there any aliens out there? We are close to knowing for sure

Features

Glowing organisms

Space

We could find alien life on exoplanets by looking for its glow

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Lee Cronin

Chemistry

Chemist Lee Cronin is building an alien to work out why life exists

Regulars

Life

Don't miss: Curative comedy, cultural copies and an unlikely fish diet

Culture

The team inspects the tree

Environment

Tree stumps that should be dead can be kept alive by nearby trees

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whale shark

Life

Endangered whale sharks strain fish out of the water using huge mouths

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jelly-like substance

Life

Early life on Earth may have existed as miniature droplets of jelly

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Internet joke plan to 'raid' Area 51 gets stern reply from US military

Space

Internet joke plan to 'raid' Area 51 gets stern reply from US military

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James Lovelock standing near the sea at Chesil Beach

Humans

James Lovelock says artificial intelligence is the start of new life

New Scientist interviewed James Lovelock to discuss Gaia’s Novacene and our new AI overlords, microwaving hamsters for science and why Elon Musk’s Mars mission is ‘crazy’

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Definition

Life on Mars

Definition

Why do we have sex?

Space

Planet in triple-star system may be our best chance to find alien life

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Technology

Working hypothesis: from Raspberry Pi to abolishing time

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