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This week's magazine
5 February 2022
Issue 3372
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Environment
UK’s spring flowers are blooming a month early due to climate change
The shift to early flowering in the UK is greater for smaller plants than trees and shrubs, and is related to warming temperatures in winter and spring over the past 70 years
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Environment
Lightning flash measuring 768 kilometres is the longest ever recorded
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Technology
Birthday wishes inadvertently give away private information online
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Life
Giant pandas more likely to reject cubs after artificial insemination
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Life
1 in 3 birds tested at an Australian animal hospital have chlamydia
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Health
Gene variant found in centenarians appears to slow the ageing process
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Environment
Extreme marine heatwaves are now normal for the world’s oceans
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Space
Don鈥檛 Look Up: Could we save Earth from a comet in just six months?
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Physics
Game theory shows how people crowd on trains at rush hour
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Health
What you need to know about the fast-spreading BA.2 omicron variant
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Life
Whiteflies have acquired dozens of genes from plants they eat
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Space
We may now know why Uranus and Neptune are different shades of blue
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Life
Hibernating ground squirrels recycle urine to maintain their muscles
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Technology
What does Google’s new cookie replacement mean for online privacy?
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Mind
We ‘click’ better with others when conversations flow more quickly
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Space
Strange gravitational wave echoes may let us probe dark matter
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Humans
160,000-year-old fossil may be the first Denisovan skull we’ve found
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Space
Rare intergalactic supernova may have been seen outside the Milky Way
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Life
Some bee colonies have to kill thousands of 鈥榮elfish鈥� wannabe queens
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Environment
How a Cotswolds river may show the way to clean up England’s waterways
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Health
Vitamin D supplements really do reduce risk of autoimmune disease
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Health
Frogs regrow amputated legs after treatment with a chemical cocktail
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Space
A strange object in space is blasting out radio waves every 18 minutes
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Life
Migrating birds may use slope of Earth鈥檚 magnetic field as 鈥榮top sign鈥�
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Health
Cancer drug could one day help cure HIV by waking up dormant viruses
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Health
Robot performs keyhole surgery on pigs with little help from doctors
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Analysis
Environment
The way we are going about saving coral reefs is all wrong
Coral gardening projects are more popular than ever to help reefs recover from the effects of a warming ocean, but they are a distraction away from the real solutions, says Catherine Collins
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Technology
A driverless car that went rogue could be a taste of the robo uprising
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Features
Physics
Do we create space-time? A new perspective on the fabric of reality
For the first time, it is possible to see the quantum world from multiple points of view at once. This hints at something very strange 鈥� that reality only takes shape when we interact with each other
Features
Environment
Christopher Jackson interview: How geologists can fight climate change
Features
Health
Interoception: This 鈥榮ixth sense鈥� could be key to better mental health
Features
Culture
Environment
Climate fiction has come of age 鈥� and these fabulous books show why
As the climate crisis grows, "cli-fi" books are driving action by showing dark, all-too-possible futures, says climate researcher Bill McGuire. Here are some of his favourites
Culture
Humans
How the World Really Works review: The tech that underpins society
Culture
Humans
Don’t miss: A rare chance to see a coveted natural history book
Culture
Technology
These are the games to look out for in 2022
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Humans
Protect your plants from cold snaps with home-made cloches
The temperature swings of spring can prove fatal to young plants. A simple home-made device could be the answer, says Clare Wilson
Regulars
Twisteddoodles: The pitfalls of quick-and-dirty pipetting
Regulars
Tom Gauld on penguins that take humans for a ride
Regulars
Regulars
Humans
In the wild, robot vacuum cleaners have no natural predators
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