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Our hunt for alien life needs solid guidelines for clear-cut success

A proposed framework to assess and communicate the credibility of detections of extraterrestrial life is vital to deliver results we can all believe in

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FG10H1 JUPITER: EUROPA, 1979. /nJupiter's moon, Europa. Photographed by Voyager 2, 1979.

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How excited should we be by signs of life spotted on alien worlds?

Features

Hair seems to help shrimp move through water

Life

Hairy legs make you swim better – if you're a shrimp

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Ice might be ubiquitous, but we are still discovering things about it

Earth

Ice might be ubiquitous, but we are still discovering things about it

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Comets may bring ingredients for life most easily to clustered planets

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An illustration of the early surface of Earth with a volcano erupting in the background.

Life

How we will discover the mysterious origins of life once and for all

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Environment

Extensive melting of West Antarctic ice sheet now looks unavoidable

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A male lion and a cub

Life

Do animals know that sex leads to babies?

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Commuter on a bike in floods

Environment

Sea level rise is already leading to longer commutes in coastal US

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Earth

Nearly all mammals will go extinct in 250 million years as Earth warms

If humans still exist millions of years from now, they will face inhospitably warm conditions on a supercontinent centred at the equator. Most land mammals won't be able to survive

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Life

The strange plant that just might be the worst smell on the planet

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Space

How the JUICE mission will look for habitability on Jupiter's moons

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Life

The delightfully bizarre creatures that live near deep-sea vents

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Life

Photos capture mission to rescue seagrass meadows in the the Baltic

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