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RDMM8C Corporate data management system or DMS as a business user privacy concept and social media connection in a 3D illustration style.

Technology

It is more vital now than ever that we reclaim our digital privacy

Health

Unravelling the secrets of the vagus nerve will revolutionise medicine

Environment

How we broke the water cycle and can no longer rely on rain to fall

Technology

Nowhere to hide: Data harvesters came for your privacy 鈥� and found it

Leaders

Technology

It is more vital now than ever that we reclaim our digital privacy

Ignore the use of your digital data at your peril: today鈥檚 personal data businesses are profiling you in ways that could have a profound impact on your life

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Someone being vaccinated against covid-19 in LA, California, in April 2021

Health

Covid-19 antibodies may give us partial immunity to SARS and MERS

Antibodies from people who have had covid-19 or been vaccinated against it may give them partial protection against most other pathogens in the coronavirus family

Space

Russia’s Luna 25 moon mission ends in catastrophic crash

Environment

Extreme fires caused by ancient humans wiped out Californian megafauna

Physics

Springy ice seen for the first time may explain how clouds make rain

Technology

IBM has just made error correction easier for quantum computers

Mind

Consciousness traced to specific clusters of nerve cells in the brain

Technology

3D-printed toilet is so slippery that nothing can leave a mark

Health

Wiping stem cells ‘clean’ could make them easier to produce

Space

All of Neptune鈥檚 clouds have vanished 鈥� it may be because of the sun

Mind

Negative emotions really do make events seem to last longer

Technology

Google AI predicts floods four days early in South America and Africa

Life

Flies riding on a carousel suggest that insects like to play

Health

Pig kidney transplant in brain-dead man still functions after a month

Technology

Multilingual AIs are better at responding to queries in English

Technology

Gene-edited yeasts transform bread and give rice wine a banana taste

Space

Aliens on low-oxygen worlds may never discover fire

Humans

脰tzi the iceman was dark-skinned and balding, suggests genome analysis

Environment

Wildfires made worse by plants starting to grow earlier in the year

Health

Air-purifying lampshade reduces indoor pollution via chemical reaction

Life

Sick blackbirds go to bed earlier just like us

Analysis

Technology

Chip shortages are producing winners and losers in the AI gold rush

The high-powered chips required for training the most advanced artificial intelligences are in short supply, with big firms winning out over academics and activists

Environment

Climate change isn’t only hammering species that live in cold places

Life

Is it time to do away with species names that honour odious people?

Aperture

Humans

These ancient sand drawings could be a fifth type of palaeoart

Was this perfect circle with a central depression drawn by our ancestors in the sand, around 136,000 years ago? Palaeontologist Charles Helm certainly thinks so

Features

Technology

Nowhere to hide: Data harvesters came for your privacy 鈥� and found it

The way your data is stored and shared is changing and your online activity can be used to categorise you in ways that drastically alter your life. There are ways to take back control

Environment

How we broke the water cycle and can no longer rely on rain to fall

Health

Unravelling the secrets of the vagus nerve will revolutionise medicine

Culture

Painting showing Gregor Mendel, Austrian scientist who experimented with garden peas to establish the principle of heredity.

Comment

Disputed Inheritance review: Why do we still bother with Mendel?

Where does "father of genetics" Gregor Mendel fit in a post-genomic world? Gregory Radick has written an excellent reset

Comment

快猫短视频 recommends: Light-hearted crime series Poker Face

Comment

Whalefall review: Stunning novel about being swallowed by a whale

Comment

Viewfinder review: Perspective is all in a unique first-person puzzler

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Life

Why you shouldn’t worry about keeping plants in your bedroom at night

There is a belief that keeping houseplants in our bedrooms at night is dangerous because they compete with us for air, but in reality they have a negligible effect on the indoor atmosphere, says James Wong

Tom Gauld: ‘If that’s Cern, I’m not here’

Twisteddoodles on what’s new in science