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How’s your health? • Focusing on health with as much precision as disease will make us all feel better

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JWST shows Crab Nebula in new light

We must hit net zero by 2034 to avoid breaching 1.5°C limit

Insects disguise themselves as enemy spiders

We may have seen a black hole’s birth • Strange light undulations from a supernova blast could be evidence of a black hole’s creation

AI brings John Lennon’s vocals to new Beatles’ song

Analysis Brain health • Is it really vital to get 8 hours of sleep a night? The largest analysis of brain scanning data yet casts doubt on the idea that shorter sleep duration is linked to shrinkage of the brain, reports Clare Wilson

Starfish are actually flattened heads with no bodies

Trip to space and back has no effect on mouse embryos

Do other animals have a menopause? • Female humans and whales have a post-reproductive life stage, but what about other mammals? It depends how you ask the question, says Michael Le Page

The Great Sphinx may have been largely blown into shape by the wind

AIs can guess where you live and how much you earn

The health costs of wildfires • Wildfires have undone years of progress on improving air quality, and the smoke can have devastating effects on our bodies, reports Grace Wade

What is in wildfire smoke?

Record-breaking quantum computer has over 1000 qubits

We are homing in on brain cells that cause motion sickness

Ancient valleys seen beneath ice • A hidden landscape has been unveiled under the East Antarctic ice sheet

Bird flu reaches the Antarctic and could cause devastation

Discovery of key gene variants could help treat migraines

Roosters may be able to recognise themselves

Smart glasses that help you find things

Cells may get a boost by eating viruses

Ice-spewing supervolcano may have been found on Pluto

Really brief

Martian gamble • NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission aims to find life, but a rethink is needed to ensure Earth’s biosecurity, says Paul Marks

Health Check • Filtering it out We finally have evidence that air-cleaning machines reduce covid-19 sick days in schools, but it has taken too long to carry out randomised trials, says Clare Wilson

Boldly going

Your letters

A new road ahead • Wildlife crossings providing safe passage around roads will need global buy-in, says a rare book combining truth and hope. Vijaysree Venkatraman explores

Our language, our lives • Invaluable insights into the human mind may disappear with the extinction of thousands of languages, finds Colin Barras

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