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This week's magazine
5 October 2024
Issue 3511
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Health
Map of the immune system changing with age may help optimise vaccines
Our immune cells change a lot as the decades progress, which could explain why we become more susceptible to certain conditions
News
Environment
Jet contrails may cool the planet by day and warm it by night
News
Earth
How ‘river piracy’ made Mount Everest grow even taller
News
Health
Radioactive ion beam could target tumours more precisely
News
Technology
AI tweaks to photos and videos can alter our memories
News
Life
Octopuses and fish hunt as a team to catch more prey
News
Environment
Jet stream shifts are linked to fires, failed harvests and the plague
News
Health
How much should we worry about the health effects of microplastics?
News
Humans
World’s oldest cheese found on 3500-year-old Chinese mummies
News
Technology
AIs get worse at answering simple questions as they get bigger
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Humans
AI discovers hundreds of ancient Nazca drawings in Peruvian desert
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Environment
Camellia oil could be the greenest cooking oil 鈥� and the healthiest
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Society
We now know who was cannibalised on the doomed Franklin expedition
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Technology
What voice assistants like Alexa know about you 鈥� and how they use it
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Technology
Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second
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Space
Search for alien transmissions in promising star system draws a blank
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Life
Axolotls seem to pause their biological clocks and stop ageing
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Chemistry
Chemists discovered the first new chemical bond in more than a decade
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Environment
Forests became less diverse when ancient people started herding pigs
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Space
Planet in the ‘forbidden zone’ of dead star could reveal Earth’s fate
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Health
Pain relief from the placebo effect may not actually involve dopamine
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Features
Society
How to rebuild democracy to truly harness the power of the people
Confidence in politics is falling around the world. Can scientific insights help us create a fairer, smarter foundation for government?
Features
Mind
Why we avoid effort even though it can improve our well-being
Features
Space
The astrophysicist unravelling the origins of supermassive black holes
Features
Culture
Life
It’s time to celebrate a renaissance in English nature writing
Musing on John Lewis-Stempel's latest book, England: A natural history, James McConnachie marks the flowering of other, more diverse voices in nature writing
Culture
Space
快猫短视频 recommends astronomy exhibition Borrowed Light in Berlin
Culture
Technology
Bill Gates’s Netflix series offers some dubious ideas about the future
Culture
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Technology
It’s parents who are anxious about smartphones, not their children
Smartphones have indeed created an "anxious generation", but it isn't young people, it is their parents, argues neuroscientist Dean Burnett
Comment
Society
Why we need to fight back against sexy Asian lady robots
Comment
Mind
I am in a rut. Is there a way to regain my zest for life?
Regulars
Tom Gauld: Remember this day when my genius blazes across the world
Regulars
Twisteddoodles brings that seasonal feeling to the lab
Regulars
Regulars
Do chickens blush? And if they do, what makes them blush the most?
Feedback is pleased to find that researchers are finally exploring if skin redness is a good indication of "the affective state of hens"
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
This week鈥檚 new questions
Last Word
Do black holes look the same from any angle?
Last Word
In a post-apocalyptic world, how long would canned food remain edible?
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