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Humans

Ruby Wax interview: We are addicted to bad news but we can break free

Life

Why we’re in for a long wait to hear from intelligent aliens

Environment

The endangered giants that still lurk in the world鈥檚 biggest rivers

Leaders

Life

Alien life may exist on Venus but intelligence could be harder to find

Phosphine in Venus鈥檚 atmosphere could be a sign of alien microbes, but we will probably never discover an intelligent alien civilisation

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Health

Europe’s second covid-19 wave is here but is it bigger than the first?

Several countries are reporting more daily covid-19 cases than during the first wave in March, though the higher numbers may be due to more people being tested

Health

What should a second coronavirus lockdown look like in Europe?

Health

Inside one of Australia’s super-strict coronavirus quarantine hotels

Health

Let the coronavirus spread among young people? It鈥檚 not a good idea

Space

To understand signs of life on Venus we must do chemistry on Earth

Life

Missions to confirm signs of life on Venus are already in the works

Health

The paleo diet may make your biological age older than your real age

Life

Rapid evolution due to extreme climate events could lead to extinction

Life

New species of tiny 鈥榝airy shrimp鈥� found in the world鈥檚 hottest desert

Space

Astronomers may have found the first planet in another galaxy

Health

Blood test could reveal if you will experience the placebo effect

Technology

Carbon ribbons a few atoms wide could help make powerful computers

Technology

A robot called Curly beat top-ranked athletes at curling

Life

Young bats accept reality of climate change before older generations

Space

Radiation exposure on the moon is nearly three times that on the ISS

Life

The longest whale dive ever recorded clocks in at almost 4 hours

Technology

Device can harvest wind energy from the breeze made when you walk

Analysis

Environment

World leaders pledge to protect nature 鈥� will it make a difference?

The sheer number of global leaders pledging to protect nature at a virtual UN biodiversity summit is progress 鈥� but we need more than warm words to limit habitat loss and species extinction

Environment

China’s 2060 carbon neutral pledge is a big deal but is it big enough?

Environment

We’re heading to court to try to stop an avian apocalypse

Technology

Why monocultures aren’t nearly as bad as you may think

Aperture

Life

Superstrong sea sponge could help build better spacecraft

The intricate structure of this marine sponge is already mimicked in engineering and architecture, and now we know we were missing a trick that can make our designs even stronger

Regulars

Features

Life

Why we’re in for a long wait to hear from intelligent aliens

Hints of bacteria on Venus are encouraging, but finding life beyond Earth is the easy part. A new analysis suggests the evolution of human-like intelligence on another planet is more improbable than we like to imagine

Environment

The endangered giants that still lurk in the world鈥檚 biggest rivers

Humans

Ruby Wax interview: We are addicted to bad news but we can break free

Culture

Space

Space Dogs review: A dog’s-eye view of how Laika could have lived

Space Dogs follows the story of Laika, the first living being to orbit Earth, and imagines what her life could have been like had she survived reentry

Humans

Don鈥檛 Miss: Connected 鈥� an animated family road trip with wayward tech

Humans

How drones are waging a stealth war on the way we think about society

Health

Raised by Wolves review: Stunning sci-fi set on a real exoplanet