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Humans

The 7 primes of life: Why each decade comes with its own superpowers

Health

Engineered immunity: Redesigning antibodies to better fight disease

Physics

Can a new collider reveal the last secrets of the Higgs boson?

Leaders

Humans

New fossil finds show we are far from understanding how humans evolved

We should be wary of attempts to impose a simple narrative on the story of early human evolution 鈥� recent discoveries can be interpreted in many ways and future finds are likely to cause further rethinking

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A man crosses the tracks at a tram station in the empty central business district in Sydney

Health

Delta variant on track to become dominant cause of covid-19 globally

Now detected in at least 85 countries, the delta variant of the coronavirus spreads more easily and is better at evading the protection provided by vaccines, meaning it will probably outcompete other variants

Health

Brain changes from covid-19 may impact consciousness and cognition

Environment

Controversial geoengineering scheme will dump iron in the sea

Space

Jupiter’s strange atmosphere may have formed in a gigantic shadow

Health

How do covid-19 vaccines affect your periods? Here’s what we know

Health

New form of liver dialysis could help people with failed organ recover

Technology

AI clears up images of fingerprints to help with identification

Space

Rare supernova could help us understand the Milky Way鈥檚 ancient halo

Environment

Meerkats in zoos don鈥檛 put as much effort into social niceties

Life

Male birds鈥� feathers become duller when wildfires burn their habitats

Technology

GPS cyberattack falsely placed UK warship near Russian naval base

Technology

AIs don’t understand simple physics like a ball rolling down a hill

Life

We may finally know how migrating birds sense Earth’s magnetic field

Physics

Steel foil coated with nanowires does backflips out of water

Space

The clouds of Venus are too dry to support life as we know it

Health

Inflatable implant injected into the spine could relieve chronic pain

Space

We finally know when the first stars in the universe switched on

Space

Aliens orbiting 1402 stars near Earth could be looking at us right now

Space

Clays found in Martian crater hint that the planet was once habitable

Life

Dinosaurs lived in the Arctic around 70 million years ago

Health

Early dementia more likely to impact Black and Hispanic people in US

Analysis

Space

The hunt for extraterrestrial life is about to enter a new era

We haven't found proof of life on other planets, but a wave of new telescopes will give us the best chance yet, says Chima McGruder

Environment

The dream of a greener post-pandemic society seems to be fizzling out

Aperture

Life

Amazing surfing sharks image shows how currents help them save energy

Grey reef sharks seem to be just hanging in the water in this photograph by Laurent Ballesta. In reality, they are surfing upward currents, cutting their energy consumption by about 15 per cent

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Features

Humans

The 7 primes of life: Why each decade comes with its own superpowers

You might think we peak in our 20s or 30s before enduring a slow decline, but each era of our lives brings new strengths 鈥� even old age. Here's how to make the most of them

Health

Engineered immunity: Redesigning antibodies to better fight disease

Physics

Can a new collider reveal the last secrets of the Higgs boson?

Culture

Humans

Jungle review: How tropical forests helped shape human evolution

Patrick Roberts's new book Jungle tells the story of tropical forests, from their origins hundreds of millions of years ago to their current perilous condition, and how they shaped the world and us

Technology

Bakelite made the 20th century, but the plastic’s legacy is sobering

Humans

Don’t Miss: Biohackers returns to Netflix for season 2

Humans

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers is joyful sci-fi reading