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What are the prospects for life on the icy moons Europa and Enceladus?

As far as we know, there are three main ingredients required for life: liquid water, an energy source and complex chemistry. Do Europa or Enceladus have them all?

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Mysterious deep-sea holes may be burrows of tiny shrimp-like creatures

Life

Mysterious deep-sea holes may be burrows of tiny shrimp-like creatures

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The slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum is used to study the origins of multicellularity

Life

How did multicellular life evolve? Algae and yeast give some hints

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Earth

Oxygen on early Earth may have come from quartz crushed by earthquakes

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Stephen Hawking with Thomas Hertog, in Hawking's office

Physics

Stephen Hawking's final theorem turns time and causality inside out

Features

RPS Woman Science Photographer of the Year a small group of atmospheric scientists move a fluxsled to the ice, this was the first instrument deployed on the new MOSAiC floe. ?Leap of Science? by Lianna Nixon (USA)

Humans

See the top shots in the Woman Science Photographer of the Year award

Regulars

The research vessel Falkor (too)

Life

High-tech research ship ready to seek new life at hydrothermal vents

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A scene from NEXT EXIT, a Magnet release. Photo courtesy of Magnet Releasing.

Humans

Next Exit film review: New tale of the afterlife takes a wrong turn

Culture

Oosterschelde flood barrier with windmills in the Netherlands at the Northern Sea taken from above with a drone

Environment

Coastal cities have added 2500 squares kilometres of land since 2000

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Hulhumale, a new island in the Maldives

Environment

Artificial urban islands could supply homes in Maldives as waters rise

High-rise cities on two or three reclaimed islands up to 6 metres above sea level could secure the long-term future of the Maldives in the face of climate change

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Life

Prawn larvae conceal their eyes with reflectors to hide from predators

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Space

Space rock or flashy alien technology? We're going to find out

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Space

Supernovae might be a good place to hunt for alien broadcasts

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Space

Up to 74% of planets in the ‘habitable zone’ may not be good for life

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