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Technology

Stalkerware: The secret apps people use to spy on their partners

Environment

Open collaboration makes CERN great 鈥� let鈥檚 do it for climate change

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Life

When robots are ultra-lifelike will it be murder to switch one off?

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Life

Why almost everyone believes in an afterlife 鈥� even atheists

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Life

From mushroom shrouds to cyber funerals, a 21st-century guide to death

Fabiola Gianotti

Physics

CERN boss: Big physics may be in a funk, but we need it more than ever

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Life

Why the line between life and death is now more blurred than ever

Table of contents

Leaders

Environment

Open collaboration makes CERN great 鈥� let鈥檚 do it for climate change

The model of collaboration between scientists across national borders has proved its worth at the CERN particle physics lab. It would also work to fight climate change

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Starlink satellites trail across images from DECam

Space

SpaceX鈥檚 Starlink satellites are interfering with astronomy again

The second batch of Starlink satellites, launched last week by Elon Musk鈥檚 SpaceX, are interfering with astronomical observations of the southern sky

Environment

Amazon deforestation officially hits highest level in a decade

Physics

Blasting lead with 160 lasers makes it incredibly strong, then explode

Physics

Massive simulation of the universe shows how galaxies form and die

Technology

AI is digitally pasting products into your favourite films and TV

Health

Low gravity in space made some astronauts鈥� blood flow backwards

Health

Geneticists are writing the rule book for creating gene-edited babies

Environment

Smoke from Australia’s bushfires has spread to South America

Physics

Physicists see new hints of a fifth force of nature hidden in helium

Technology

Batteries as transparent as glass could power devices in your home

Technology

We finally know the odds of winning a game of solitaire

Environment

A laser-sighted toxic goo gun is killing feral cats in Australia

Environment

Stone Age artists were obsessed with horses and we don鈥檛 know why

Life

Lost US parrot species went extinct not once but twice

Health

An insulin nasal spray could help with polycystic ovary syndrome

Environment

Two types of plastic pollution found in Mediterranean for first time

Environment

Pigeons are having their toes amputated by waste human hair in Paris

Health

Improved rabies vaccine could be better and cheaper

Health

Eating tiny nutrient particles could be better than health supplements

Technology

We can now make animated ‘sound holograms’ that you can touch

Space

We have the first full map of the weird surface features of Titan

Health

Eating a keto diet may give some protection against the flu

Humans

Genetic study reveals the family secrets of people in the 1800s

Analysis

Climate change protest

Health

Health impacts of climate change on children don’t need exaggerating

A major report warns that children are particularly vulnerable as a warming world exposes them to more infectious diseases, malnutrition and dirty air

Technology

Stalkerware: The secret apps people use to spy on their partners

Health

Approval of golden rice could finally end vitamin A deficiency deaths

Technology

Hyperpalatable foods are a modern bogeyman. But what even are they?

Aperture

Petri dish

Life

Life and death caught in Petri dishes in a nod to the art of mortality

This stunning image of Petri dishes full of butterfly wings, mushrooms, moss, glass and metal by Suzanne Anker is a modern reworking of paintings designed to remind us that life is vanity

Features

skull artwork

Life

Why the line between life and death is now more blurred than ever

Brains resurrected after death, communications with people in comas and advances in cryogenics all suggest that life's end is less final than we thought

Life

When robots are ultra-lifelike will it be murder to switch one off?

Life

From mushroom shrouds to cyber funerals, a 21st-century guide to death

Life

Why almost everyone believes in an afterlife 鈥� even atheists

Physics

CERN boss: Big physics may be in a funk, but we need it more than ever

Culture

MU artspace, Eindhoven

Mind

Don’t miss: Bio-art, poetic elements, and Detroit’s fate in your hands

This week, visit an exhibition of brave biological art, unpack strange stories of the elements and play wisely to save a city of the future

Humans

Testosterone myths: How old ideas of masculinity sell us all short

Humans

The Tenth Muse review: A story in which the women count

Technology

How The Expanse is still putting humans at the heart of sci-fi

More

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Space

See Venus and Jupiter next to each other in the sky this week

Two of the brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, are in conjunction this week, meaning they appear to line up with Earth in the sky. Here's how to spot them

The adventures of a geologist: From shipwrecks to mapping the Arctic

Regulars

FACEBOOK: The rebrand that sounds like a troll who left caps lock on

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Nettle effect: Why don’t dogs seem affected by stinging nettles?

Hourglass figure: Why do wasps have such narrow waists?

Getting used to it: How do we acclimatise to different temperatures?

This week鈥檚 new questions

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