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Divided over cannabis • Medical use of cannabis products is on the rise – it is finally time for proper research

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Deadly earthquake strikes Morocco

Risk of mass deaths in heatwaves • Global warming of 1.5°C to 2°C will lead to fierce conditions that even healthy people may not be able to survive when outside, finds Michael Le Page

Asteroid hit by NASA spacecraft is behaving unexpectedly

Terracotta Army reveals secrets of ancient footwear

More solutions to three-body problem • Record 12,000 ways found to solve fiendish puzzle of how three objects can stably orbit each other

Tonga volcano’s eruption reshaped the seafloor

Covid-19 linked to higher risk of type 1 diabetes in children

Analysis Research and development • Can the UK’s new science agency deliver moonshots? The Advanced Research and Invention Agency has been tasked with a high-risk, high-reward approach, says Thomas Lewton

Huge project to release 2000 white rhinos across Africa

Electrified mist could help capture carbon from power plants

Cave art pigments show how ancient technology evolved

Salamander eggs hatch more easily if nibbled by predators

Smart toilets could leak your medical data, warn security experts

Ancient koala may solve mystery of marsupial evolution

Human kidneys partially grown in pigs offer transplant hope

Red fire ants with painful bites have taken hold in Europe

GPT-4 wins chatbot lawyer contest • AI chatbots have gone head to head on legal reasoning, but none can match real lawyers yet

Westerners sleep later on weekends than people in Asia

Our mobile arm joints may have evolved for climbing down trees

Quantum batteries could perform better if charged wirelessly

Earth has just seen its hottest three months on record

New type of cell is discovered in the brain

Ancient stones were deliberately rounded

A heartbeat helps pumps be efficient

Gannets prefer to roll either right or left when diving

Really brief

Birth of the cyborg fetus • Developing the “sharenting” habit prenatally, like I did, may affect a child’s future on multiple levels, says psychologist Elaine Kasket

Field notes from space-time • The physics of a soap opera Timescales in the British TV show Emmerdale make no sense, but maybe this helps to normalise the concept of time dilation, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Fabulous fungi

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AI’s hold on the world • How powerful is artificial intelligence? Where has it sprung from? And what can it really do? Find out in four disquieting books, says Simon Ings

A real trip • Personal experience of psychedelics is a key to learning about them, finds Thomas Lewton

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