Rare swarming rays and Australian bushfires win top photography prizes
26 August 2020
Stunning images of cownose rays and Australia’s runaway bushfires are among the winners of the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition
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Strange worlds unlike Earth may be our best bet to find alien life
26 August 2020
From rogue worlds that roam the cosmos alone to Tatooines that orbit two suns, astronomers are expanding our definition of habitable exoplanets
Kew Gardens' podcast will give you a fresh appreciation for plants
26 August 2020
From murder to magic mushrooms, Kew Gardens' new podcast, Unearthed, challenges us all to learn to love plants as much animals – and discover how they could save life on Earth
Walking catfish may use their whole body to smell when on land
20 August 2020
Fish were not thought to be able to smell while on land because their olfactory systems evolved to work underwater, but the walking catfish can
Extraordinary fossil shows ancient marine reptile swallowing huge prey
20 August 2020
An astonishing fossil shows a 5-metre-long ichthyosaur swallowed a 4-metre-long prey animal, but was injured and died before it could digest its massive meal
Secret to tardigrades' toughness revealed by supercomputer simulation
20 August 2020
Tardigrades can survive extreme temperatures and the vacuum of space – a supercomputer simulation of the behaviour of 750,000 atoms in and around its DNA help explain why
