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The Economist
The Economist
16 Oct 2024


NextImg:Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-sea vents
Science & technology | Life finds a way

Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-sea vents

The conditions are hot, sulphurous and low in oxygen

HYDROTHERMAL VENTS are the planet’s exhaust pipes. Kilometres beneath the ocean surface, they relentlessly belch out searing hot water rife with harsh chemicals from beneath Earth’s crust. When they were first discovered in 1977, nobody expected these inhospitable sites to bear signs of life. And yet, thriving alongside these vents were colonies of tubeworms, mussels and clams entirely new to science. It is hard to think of an environment that could be more hostile. Now new work is revealing evidence that these animals are raising their young in just such a place: the fractured rocks beneath the vents themselves.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has achieved something extraordinary

If SpaceX can land and reuse the most powerful rocket ever made what can’t it do?

Surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

Could life exist on one of Jupiter’s moons?

A spacecraft heading to Europa is designed to find out


Ships wake in the ocean with swell & stormy skies.

Noise-dampening tech could make ships less disruptive to marine life

Solutions include bendy propellers and “acoustic black holes”


Meet Japan’s hitchhiking fish

Medaka catch rides on obliging birds, confirming one of Darwin’s hunches

AI wins big at the Nobels

Awards went to the discoverers of micro-RNA, pioneers of artificial-intelligence models and those using them for protein-structure prediction

Google’s DeepMind researchers among recipients of Nobel prize for chemistry

The award honours protein design and the use of AI for protein-structure prediction