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Beautiful minds • Animal intelligence is widespread, so we need to rethink our relations with wildlife

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UK vaccine passport row • As restrictions ease in England and a third wave looks likely, divisive vaccine passports will be put to the test, reports Adam Vaughan

Covid-19 vaccines for kids • Early trial results hint that vaccines could be safe for children, but how the virus behaves will determine their roll-out, reports Helen Thomson

Vaccine passports for kids?

Concerts turned into live trials • Partygoers become guinea pigs in experiments on the safety of mass gatherings

AstraZeneca blood clot link • What are the safety concerns related to the covid-19 vaccine, and should we be worried, asks Clare Wilson

Aliens may also face global warming • Humans have triggered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Aliens could do the same

Female sheep prefer to mate with non-dominant males

Bronze Age dogs ate little meat and were fed on cereal

The dinosaur-killing asteroid made the Amazon possible

Living robots made from frog skin cells get a design upgrade

Lions use yawns to signal to others that it is time to move

Sponges don’t get cancer from extreme radiation exposure

Animal culture is widespread • Once thought to be uniquely human, culture is showing up in all sorts of animals, finds Michael Le Page

Handheld camera lets cancer surgeons see radioactive cells

Two UK firms make steps towards clean fusion power

Stingray mystery solved • The Amazon’s stingrays were stranded by the Caribbean Sea

Robot guide dog could help people who are blind

Sydney’s suburbs are hotter than the coast in heatwaves

Radiation blasts hint at mid-sized black hole

Ancient people collected crystals

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Antimatter atoms cooled with lasers

Football teams still get home advantage in empty stadiums

Robot lizard climbs wall like the real thing

Floundering on forests • Global tree loss is undermining tactics to address the climate crisis. It is time world leaders got their act together, says Adam Vaughan

Moral hazard of vaccination • We are starting to vaccinate our way out of the pandemic, but we shouldn’t let that make us complacent about the underlying problems, writes Graham Lawton

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Measuring up

Into the silence • Riz Ahmed turns in an impressive performance in Sound of Metal, a film about a heavy metal drummer who loses his hearing, says Francesca Steele

Waking up to tech troubles • From virtual assistants to facial-recognition systems, our tech is shot through with inequality. Layal Liverpool discovers how to fix it

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The paradox of time • Time travel as a key feature of a game is great fun, from rewinding time in Prince of Persia to fighting alongside past selves in Super Time Force. And classic RPG Chrono Trigger is always worth revisiting, says Jacob Aron

Clever creatures • The brains of the smartest animals seem to work remarkably like our own, finds David Robson

How climate change hits nature • A warming world is piling pressure on already struggling biodiversity. We need to tackle both problems together, finds Michael Le Page

The Mars biologist • Tanja Bosak...