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Life

Fairy lantern flower has a gaping 'mouth' and saps energy from fungi

Fairy lanterns (Thismia) are parasitic plants that steal nutrients from fungi – and a newly discovered species has hooded flowers unlike those seen among known species

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Definition

Technosignatures

What’s next for the Mars Perseverance rover? Your questions answered

Space

What’s next for the Mars Perseverance rover? Your questions answered

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Deepest land-dwelling microbes found at bottom of 5km hole in China

Life

Deepest land-dwelling microbes found at bottom of 5km hole in China

News

Ten conservation success stories when species came back from the brink

Life

Ten conservation success stories when species came back from the brink

Features

Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'

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Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'

Video

Avi Loeb: Is ‘Oumuamua extraterrestrial technology?

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Avi Loeb: Is ‘Oumuamua extraterrestrial technology?

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Environment

Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'

News

Avi Loeb interview: Could ‘Oumuamua be alien technology after all?

Space

Avi Loeb interview: Could ‘Oumuamua be alien technology after all?

Features

Dyson spheres: How to spot an alien megastructure

Space

Dyson spheres: How to spot an alien megastructure

Intelligent extraterrestrials may have built vast solar power plants around their host stars. The hunt for their telltale glow is hotting up

Features

Life

Water may be even more crucial to life than we thought

News

Space

Weird radio beam probably isn’t aliens but it’s the best candidate yet

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Space

2020 in review: The hunt for life on Venus continues

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Life

The curious case of the “glacier mice” that seem to dance on ice

Features