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Efforts to manage invasive alien plant species in forests could be held back by a continued reliance on chemical methods, according to a new study. Research led by Lizzie Keen, a postgraduate ...
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Scientists are calling for a lunar quarantine facility where samples from Mars, the Moon, and beyond would be examined before being brought to Earth. They warn that even a tiny alien microorganism ...
A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...
On today’s episode of The Infographics Show, scientists spot something on exoplanet K2-18b that shouldn’t exist without life.
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The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...
A well-worn expression among oceanographers and others who explore the watery depths of planet Earth is that we humans “know the surface of Mars better than our ocean floors.” Covering more than 70 ...
In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...
Researchers propose turning a future NASA moon base into a quarantine station that would screen space samples before they ever reach Earth.