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Close-up of a baby green turtle

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Watch a baby sea turtle being hypnotised so we can weigh it

Baby sea turtles won’t stay still long enough for conservation biologists to weigh and measure them. Now we have a way to stop them squirming – hypnotise them

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Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

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Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

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A landscape with a distant person looking up at the night sky where the Milky Way is visible

Space

First mirror-image molecule found in interstellar space

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Map of Mars's methane

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Spongy minerals could explain why Mars gives off methane burps

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Orcas are first non-humans whose evolution is driven by culture

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Orcas are first non-humans whose evolution is driven by culture

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This deep-sea creature could be the world's oldest living animal

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This deep-sea creature could be the world's oldest living animal

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See the best new species discovered over the past year

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See the best new species discovered over the past year

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Thomas the roboboat

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Thomas the marine engine set to explore UK ocean fronts

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A grey and white porpoise lying on a pebbly beach

Life

UK's harbour porpoise strandings linked to rising starvation

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Juno probe

Life

Pinball planets: How life could start in a violent solar system

We assumed habitable planets couldn't exist in solar systems where gas giants ricochet around. So why do we keep finding them?

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Life

There might be a planet better than Earth – right next door

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Earth

North Pacific's sea slug invasion linked to mystery ocean blob

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Environment

Massive new coral reef discovered at Amazon river mouth

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Life

New Arctic life on barren seabed thrives on methane jets

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