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Listen and learn • A collaborative approach is needed to avoid the next pandemic
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Removing restrictions • Countries worldwide are having to decide what “living with covid” really looks like, report Alex Wilkins and Carissa Wong
The dream of ending child cancer • Is it possible to prevent all children dying from cancer? Alice Klein reports
Rare ‘hyperburst’ is powerful nuclear explosion in space
Lichens may take a million years to adapt to 1°C of global warming
Microwave weapon lets drones shoot down other drones
Facebook anti-vaccine policy worked briefly
‘Cold blob’ may be slowing loss from Iceland’s glaciers
Pig organ trials may start soon • After completing a human trial of modified pig skin grafts last year, a team in China hopes to start the first pig organ transplant trial, reports Michael Le Page
Modern humans moved into cave one year after Neanderthals abandoned it
Spiderwebs may be the world’s most sensitive ‘ears’
Yoga at least once a week may help to lower blood pressure
US Army supplier to ditch depleted uranium rounds
Nuclear fusion record suggests we really could build artificial suns
Cricket has strongest known bite of any insect in the world
The race to capture carbon • Myriad inventive ways of removing greenhouse gases from the air are turning from dreams into reality. Adam Vaughan reports
From food to forestry
Barn owl’s tail could inspire more efficient flying drones
Habitable world may be orbiting dead star
AI beats world’s best video game drivers
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Possible Alzheimer’s link to sleep is found
Here’s how you need to eat in order to live 10 years longer
Coal ash could supply vital metals for tech
Trouble in the metaverse • Throughout history, there has been backlash to technological progress – so why should now be any different, asks James Ball
Field notes from space-time • Do look down We shouldn’t only celebrate spacecraft staring out at the universe, but also those turned on Earth, helping us live better on our own planet, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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Sharing the seas • The question of who owns the oceans and who gets to enjoy their spoils has more than a whiff of colonialism about it, finds Simon Ings
Bad moon rising • Finally, a disaster movie without a message and that is fun to watch, says Leah Crane
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The film column • From Russia with flu A surreal and sometimes exhausting journey through one man’s delirium provides an ambitious and mischievous take on history, aliens and the human mind, finds Simon Ings
Making a mind • In the push to make artificial intelligence that thinks like humans, many researchers are focused on fresh insights from neuroscience. Should they be looking to psychology instead, asks Edd Gent
Are you sitting comfortably? • If you worry that slouching is causing you long-term discomfort, think again. It is time to rewrite the rules of perfect posture and find the real cause of our aches and pains, asks Alison George
Change your posture to change your mood
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In from the cold • As ice and frozen soil around the world melts, potentially deadly microbes that have lain...