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AI’s power grab • How do we balance the rise of energy-hungry AI with the push to decarbonise?

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Drones race in the half-light

Are spies sabotaging encryption? • The US National Security Agency has been accused of meddling with cryptography standards to make them less secure, reports Matthew Sparkes

Largest known solar storm struck Earth 14,300 years ago

Placebos may ease pain by acting on brain systems linked to emotions

Sea level rise is already leading to longer commutes

Pickled snake is new species – but it may already be extinct

Analysis Artificial intelligence • Should we worry about AI’s energy use? The growing use of power-hungy artificial intelligence could end up consuming as much energy as whole countries, says Matthew Sparkes

JWST should soon glimpse the very first stars born after the big bang

Autonomous robots could make farms more biodiverse

Psychedelics hype may lead people to self-medicate

Drying rivers threaten London’s water supply

Amazon successfully launches its prototype Kuiper satellites

The growing carbon footprint of satellite internet

A genetic basis for vegetarianism? • Some variants of certain genes may affect people’s ability to tolerate a diet without animal fat

Hybrid puffins may have emerged due to global warming

Egg tests may stop chick slaughter • Billions of unwanted male chicks are killed each year straight after hatching, but techniques to sex embryos inside eggs could end this practice, finds Alice Klein

Humans survived on Spanish plateau during Earth’s last cold snap

Fractal fingers could let robots securely grasp any shape

The global power sector has almost hit peak emissions

Hip pain linked to a dozen genetic variants

Classical music can synchronise hearts

Highest-energy light seen from a pulsar

We finally know how cats make deep purring sounds

Really brief

Fancy some mammoth? • The lab-grown meat industry needs to perfect and normalise the staples before jumping to exotic alternatives, argues Brian Kateman

Field notes from space-time • How the balloon analogy is almost perfect If space-time is expanding, then why does gravity seem to pull things together? Physics can be weird, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Out of this world

Heroes in a half shell • Turtles have existed for around 250 million years. These ancient, unhurried reptiles have much to teach us about the nature of time, discovers Elle Hunt

Under the influence • In a vital read, a journalist goes behind the scenes of the creator economy to trace its meteoric rise, says Chris Stokel-Walker

New Scientist recommends

The books column • Doubleplusgood The sequel to Nineteen Eighty-Four, told from the perspective of the woman at the original’s heart, is brilliant but devastating – not least because it reminds us how relevant George Orwell’s dystopia still is, says Sally Adee

Your letters

Finding the multiverse • Our cosmos may bear scars of collisions with other universes. We are finally poised to test this idea by observing exotic quantum matter in the lab, says Miriam Frankel

What are the odds?

Small but mighty? • Microgreens are trendy and fun to grow, but do they really live up to their...