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Earth

Silicon Valley billionaires want to geoengineer the world’s oceans

Health

Politicians can鈥檛 be afraid of U-turns if we want to keep schools open

Humans

Joe Henrich interview: Psychology must look beyond Western cultures

Health

The moon really may have strange effects on our health

Physics

The fuzzy law that could break the idea of a mathematical universe

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Leaders

Health

Politicians can鈥檛 be afraid of U-turns if we want to keep schools open

In order to keep schools safe, governments must be prepared to shut down other areas of society to keep overall levels of virus transmission low

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Health

Human trials of Oxford coronavirus vaccine have begun in the US

The first of 30,000 volunteers in the US have received either a placebo or dose of the Oxford vaccine, to test whether it protects them from coronavirus

Health

Coronavirus: How to keep children and staff safe when schools reopen

Health

Coronavirus: Should children returning to school wear face coverings?

Health

What are T-cells and why have they become a political football?

Health

How I launched WHO鈥檚 covid-19 response in the Central African Republic

Technology

AI removes unwanted objects from photos to give a clearer view

Environment

Historic California wildfires likely to be fuelled by climate change

Space

Travelling through a wormhole without dying may actually be possible

Environment

Algae’s ability to photosynthesise boosted by light-harvesting plastic

Health

We can train our brain to access our unconscious for a cognitive boost

Space

Quantum computers may be destroyed by high-energy particles from space

Life

Best-preserved titanosaur embryo reveals they had nose horns as babies

Health

Body fat transformed by CRISPR gene editing helps mice keep weight off

Society

Letting people in the US vote by mail has little impact on who wins

Space

Earth may have formed with enough water to fill the oceans three times

Life

Watch cells sniff their way around the maze from Hampton Court Palace

Technology

Army of a million microscopic robots created to explore on tiny scale

Analysis

Earth

Silicon Valley billionaires want to geoengineer the world’s oceans

A 快猫短视频 investigation has found that some of the world's richest people are funding geoengineering plans that would transform the world's oceans to combat climate change

Technology

We could soon make cars stop people driving while drunk or on drugs

Health

A lot of veg is ‘toxic’ but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t eat it

Aperture

Life

Beautiful blooming phytoplankton create swirling art in the Baltic Sea

This image released by NASA's Earth Observatory shows a giant bloom created by phytoplankton off the Swedish coast

Features

Physics

The fuzzy law that could break the idea of a mathematical universe

The discovery that a fundamental law of physics cannot be precisely defined challenges the ability of mathematics as we know it to describe reality completely

Health

The moon really may have strange effects on our health

Humans

Joe Henrich interview: Psychology must look beyond Western cultures

Culture

Humans

Inside the ISS: Astronauts tell their amazing tales of living in space

Real-life accounts of International Space Station crew members Samantha Cristoforetti and Terry Virts capture the extraordinarily ordinary life of an astronaut

Environment

David Attenborough helps podcast bring climate crisis centre stage

Humans

Don’t Miss: Netflix’s Away sees Hilary Swank on perilous Mars mission

Humans

We are living in the middle of a fantastic Star Trek renaissance

More

Tom Gauld on how we communicate with computers

Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon

Twisteddoodles on the real reasons honeybees do the waggle dance

Regulars

Baboons may have found a new car-vandalising tactic during lockdown

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

This Week鈥檚 Letters

This week鈥檚 new questions

Is there such thing as reverse altitude sickness?

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