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Liu

Life

Exclusive: Chinese sci-fi genius Cixin Liu on humanity's deadly future

The future is bright for our species, mostly because we kill everything in our path, says China's first winner of the Hugo science-fiction award

Culture

Earth

Life

The clues to finding alien life could lie in Earth's deep past

Features

Film-maker Ed Webb-Ingall investigates the Arran shoreline

Environment

How a tiny festival could save Scotland's coastal culture

Culture

Sterile fish could help wild salmon dodge the ‘gene pollution’ effect

Environment

Sterile fish could help wild salmon dodge the ‘gene pollution’ effect

News

Preserved ocean creatures make landfall in London

Life

Preserved ocean creatures make landfall in London

Culture

We could find life on Europa by just scratching its surface

Space

We could find life on Europa by just scratching its surface

News

planet

Space

Why weird star systems are where we'll find alien life

Features

Person stands beneath the Milky Way

Space

Are we alone in the universe? Science says it’s a definite maybe

Analysis

Mars has complex organic material that may be from ancient life

Space

Mars has complex organic material that may be from ancient life

News

Silhoutted person looking at stars

Space

I'm working on a universal language to let us speak to aliens

It's time to find a new way to speak across the stars, says Douglas Vakoch, head of METI, the body dedicated to messaging possible alien civilisations

Comment

Space

Exoplanet with a cloudless sky may let us see inside a gas giant

News

Space

Life on toxic Venus? Acid-loving microbes could thrive in clouds

News

Space

Life on nearest exoplanet may have been wiped out by superflare

News

Space

Earth had water even before the collision that made the moon

News