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The future is grey • An ageing world will compel us to change how we live

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Nvidia bets big on humanoid bots

Drugs with anti-ageing influence? • Four commonly taken drugs, including Viagra and medicines containing oestrogen, seemed to slightly lower the chance of people dying during a 12-year study, finds Clare Wilson

Dogs understand that certain words stand for objects

Food is costing more due to climate change – and prices will keep rising

Human receives pig kidney • In a medical milestone, a genetically modified pig kidney has been successfully transplanted into a living human, reports Grace Wade

Robot designs better paper planes than a human

Bustling sea trade 7000 years ago • Ancient canoes capable of transporting goods suggest Mediterranean trading in the Neolithic period

Ant queens have good reasons for eating their young

World’s hairiest beetle • An eye-catching insect found in Australia is impressively coiffed

Starship accidentally caused volcano-like blast

Analysis Global population • Why falling birth rates will be a bigger problem than overpopulation Nearly every country is predicted to have a birth rate that is too low to maintain its population by 2100, which may result in too few people of working age, says Clare Wilson

Human brains mysteriously preserved for thousands of years

Extinct freshwater dolphin was the largest of all time

Organic farms can boost pesticide use • Spillover of insects seems to prompt nearby conventional farmers to change their behaviour

Why teens make noses wrinkle but infants smell sweet

Common antibiotics seem to regenerate heart cells in animals

Largest recorded solar storm was even bigger than we thought

AI boosts artists’ popularity • People who used generative AI to create art got better feedback, despite it being less original

Blue tits shared a tree hollow with bird-eating bats

Britain’s Pompeii revealed in detail • A settlement in the east of England burned down in a fire 3000 years ago, falling into a muddy waterway that preserved everything inside the houses, finds Chen Ly

DeepMind AI advises on football tactics

Orcas get organised to hunt whale calves

CRISPR gene editing may be able to disable and cure HIV

Really brief

Surprise! It’s a pulsar • Some of the greatest astronomical discoveries have come about by accident. We should embrace serendipity in science, says Chris Lintott

Wild wild life • Saving what we can Researchers are going to great lengths to protect northern white rhinos and bring back woolly mammoths, but is every species really necessary, asks Chris Simms

O second moon

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Going cosmic • An insider account of particle physics takes us to the heart of the action through an engaging, accessible and fun read, says Anna Demming

First and last strike • What exactly would happen in a nuclear attack on the US? George Bass explores an all-too-plausible account

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