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This week's magazine
16 July 2022
Issue 3395
On the cover
Editor's picks
Mind
Why spending time near water gives us a powerful mental health boost
Features
Environment
Bees vs wasps: Which insect is really worthy of all the buzz?
Features
Life
Rock pooling with an expert reveals all manner of evolutionary marvels
Features
Mathematics
How many knots exist? A new computing trick is untangling the answer
Features
Table of contents
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Health
UK’s latest omicron wave being driven by BA.4 and BA.5 covid variants
The latest coronavirus figures from the UK's Office for National Statistics show that around 2.7 million people had covid-19 in the week ending 29 June, as the highly transmissible omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 drive infections
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Space
James Webb Space Telescope鈥檚 first deep-field image is stunning
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Space
How the James Webb Space Telescope’s first colour images were made
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Society
UK scientists in EU funding limbo after Boris Johnson’s resignation
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Health
Infertility in some men may be caused by X chromosome mutations
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Technology
Efforts to regulate ‘killer robots’ are threatened by war in Ukraine
News
Life
Hurricane that hit Jamaica helped low-lying trees spread to mountains
News
Technology
DeepMind AI learns physics by watching videos that don’t make sense
News
Health
Men may eat more in summer because sunlight makes them hungrier
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Space
10 per cent chance falling rockets will hit someone in next decade
News
Technology
Computer component could use as little energy as physically possible
News
Technology
AI can convert almost any 3D scene into the style of a famous artwork
News
Life
Three-eyed predator stalked the seas 500 million years ago
News
Life
Southern fin whales have recovered to large numbers in the Antarctic
News
Mind
AI can use your brainwaves to see things that you can’t
News
Environment
Bats in Germany are riddled with pesticides and toxic pollutants
News
Technology
Gel-coated battery could stop mobile phones catching fire or exploding
News
Life
Optimising crop genetics could double global wheat production
News
Life
Meraxes gigas was a huge dinosaur with tiny arms like T. rex
News
Health
Drugs used to treat ADHD and depression may ease Alzheimer’s symptoms
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Life
Snapping shrimps have helmets to ward off shock waves from their claws
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Features
Mind
Why spending time near water gives us a powerful mental health boost
We have long known that connecting with nature in green spaces is great for our mental health. Now fresh research is showing that time near water 鈥� by the coast, rivers and even fountains in the park 鈥� is even more restorative
Features
Life
Rock pooling with an expert reveals all manner of evolutionary marvels
Features
Mathematics
How many knots exist? A new computing trick is untangling the answer
Features
Environment
Bees vs wasps: Which insect is really worthy of all the buzz?
Features
Culture
Environment
The Mind of a Bee review: Can a bee have a form of consciousness?
A radical new book argues that a bee may have a mind of its own, awareness of the world, basic emotions and intelligence. It is a bold and brave claim 鈥� but is it true?
Culture
Humans
The Metaverse review: Tech CEO Matthew Ball tangles with digital space
Culture
Humans
Don’t Miss: Find out about the handshake, humanity’s oldest greeting
Culture
Humans
Black Hole Symphony preview: Orchestral work blends science with music
Culture
More
Space
Now is the best time to see Pluto, our beloved dwarf planet
Track down a telescope and pray for dark skies, as a chance to see Pluto is coming up, says Abigail Beall
Regulars
Tom Gauld on where to start with rewilding
Regulars
Twisteddoodles compares a music festival and a scientific conference
Regulars
Regulars
Humans
Would you sacrifice five lobsters to save the life of a cat?
Feedback investigates weird trolley problems, the Palaeolithic cannibal diet, fussy otters and microrobot dentistry
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
Why do insects buzz when flying? Does making this sound help them?
Last Word
What provides the healing effect of a placebo treatment? Part 2
Last Word
Could dinosaurs have developed human-like abstract intelligence?
Last Word
This week鈥檚 new questions
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