Environment
How lab-grown lichen could help us to build habitations on Mars
Scientists cultivating partnerships of fungi and algae believe their invention has far-out implications for how we create the buildings of the future
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Space
The essential guide to proving we鈥檝e found alien life
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Space
Mars may once have had a much larger moon
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Space
Caves carved by water on Mars may hold signs of past life
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Space
The Martian permafrost may be hiding veins of habitable liquid water
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Space
Martian volcanoes may have transported ice to the planet’s equator
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Space
Blue Planet Red is wrong about Mars 鈥� but it’s surprisingly poignant
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Space
Mars once had an atmosphere that was thicker than Earth’s today
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Space
A weird cloud forms on Mars each year and now we know why
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Space
NASA hasn’t found life on Mars yet 鈥� but signs are promising
A rock found last year on the surface of Mars offered tantalising evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet. Now scientists have found yet more evidence that could point to the existence of ancient organisms 鈥� but we can't know for certain without returning samples to Earth
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Space
Bioplastic habitats on Mars could be built from algae
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Space
Perseverance rover may hold secrets to newly discovered Mars volcano
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Space
New Scientist recommends The Martian 鈥� sci-fi fun for all the family
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Technology
Could brain-computer interface let us inhabit robot avatars on Mars?
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