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Humans

Minority scientists still face many forms of institutional racism

Health

Acknowledging odd coronavirus symptoms is vital to stopping its spread

Earth

Lightning is killing our forests 鈥� and it’s only going to get worse

Health

Why strange and debilitating coronavirus symptoms can last for months

Mind

Consciousness isn’t just the brain: The body shapes your sense of self

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Leaders

Health

Acknowledging odd coronavirus symptoms is vital to stopping its spread

Covid-19 can have long-lived symptoms including exhaustion, weight loss and rashes. Unless we officially recognise them, we can鈥檛 identify people who may have caught it or trace their contacts

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Health

England’s contact-tracing efforts still plagued by problems

England is continuing to remove coronavirus restrictions but efforts to track and stop infections are struggling, with too few people being contacted

Health

How the coronavirus kills people 鈥� and how to stop it

Health

Should you pay for a coronavirus test? Here’s what you need to know

Health

Coronavirus poses grave threat to Amazon’s indigenous communities

Health

Why New Zealand decided to go for full elimination of the coronavirus

Space

Electric dust could be erasing signs of life from the surface of Mars

Life

Rising sea levels may have helped dinosaurs dominate the planet

Space

Some hot giant planets get larger as they are heated by their stars

Life

Fossil cells with ‘tails’ may have been moving 3.4 billion years ago

Humans

Stone Age ruling elite in Ireland may have had incestuous marriages

Life

The first dinosaurs may have laid soft eggs without hard shells

Environment

Monitoring of ticks in the US is patchy and underfunded

Analysis

Humans

Minority scientists still face many forms of institutional racism

People from minority backgrounds are underrepresented in science, and face funding disparities and outright racism. Tying funding to institutions being more inclusive could help

Environment

Black Lives Matter could also help fight environmental injustices

Aperture

Life

Weird caterpillar uses its old heads to make an elaborate hat

Meet the mad hatterpillar, the invertebrate that keeps its old moulted heads attached to its body to make a beautifully bizarre headpiece

Features

Mind

Consciousness isn’t just the brain: The body shapes your sense of self

Electrical signals coming from your heart and other organs influence how you perceive the world, the decisions you take, your sense of who you are and consciousness itself.

Health

Why strange and debilitating coronavirus symptoms can last for months

Earth

Lightning is killing our forests 鈥� and it’s only going to get worse

Culture

Technology

How to avoid a techno-apocalypse brought on by the internet

New stories by authors including Neal Stephenson, Rose Eveleth and Robert Harris imagine a techno-apocalypse precipitated by the internet. Some even hint at how we could dodge it

Humans

Don’t Miss: Delve into the science of breathing

Technology

Disney is working on AI animatronics that interact with park guests

More

Tom Gauld on how to make a decision using all of the information

Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon

Twisteddoodles looks for the best way describe a scientific discovery

Regulars

Finally an attempt to stop the US president from nuking a hurricane

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

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Why didn’t babies evolve to allow parents to get more sleep?

Is our sense of new smells keener? What’s the evolutionary benefit of this?

This week’s new questions

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