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Mind

Understanding conscious experience isn鈥檛 beyond the realm of science

Health

A fresh understanding of tiredness reveals how to get your energy back

The return of the hunters - Native Americans, circa 1904

Humans

The epic scientific quest to reveal what makes folktales so compelling

Physics

The physicist on a mission to spark a quantum industrial revolution

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Leaders

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Mind

Understanding conscious experience isn鈥檛 beyond the realm of science

For a long time objective measurement of subjective experience was considered impossible, but it is finally becoming a reality, promising a boost for health care and much more

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NASA Webb Wows With Incredible Detail in Actively Forming Star System At the center is a thin vertical cloud known as Lynds 483 that is shaped like an hourglass with irregular edges. At lower center are two discrete bright white, tiny blobs of light that have raced away from the hidden central stars. The top lobe shows a more prominent orange U-shape. Orange bleeds into light purple, and brighter pink at its edges. Some background stars are visible through sections of this lobe. Higher up, there is an orange arc. Some brighter pink material extends to the top edges near the center. In the lower lobe, less orange is visible. More opaque light purple is in its top third, rippling out into semi-transparent blues and pinks. The lower lobe has more texture. V-shapes left and right of the lobes are darkest, and the background stars in these areas appear orange. Elsewhere, the black background of space is clearer, speckled with tiny white stars and faint orange galaxies. Shimmering ejections emitted by two actively forming stars make up Lynds 483 (L483). High-resolution near-infrared light captured by NASA?s James Webb Space Telescope shows incredible new detail and structure within these lobes. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

Space

See a shimmering hourglass-shaped star system in exquisite detail

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the colourful ejections of two protostars at the centre of Lynds 483.

Mathematics

‘Amazing’ spinning needle proof unlocks a whole new world of maths

Space

Saturn gains 128 moons, giving it more than the other planets combined

Life

Male octopus injects female with venom during sex to avoid being eaten

Life

Sex may have evolved as a way to pool resources during tough times

Space

Speeding star offers a rare glimpse of the Milky Way’s galactic centre

Life

Chimps and bonobos relieve social tension by rubbing their genitals

Humans

Ancient humans used bone tools a million years earlier than we thought

Society

Thousands join ‘Stand Up for Science’ rallies across the US

Physics

Light has been transformed into a ‘supersolid’ for the first time

Physics

Quantum disorder is dependent on who is looking for it

Space

The solar system was once engulfed by a vast wave of gas and dust

Environment

Blackbird deaths point to looming West Nile virus threat in the UK

Health

Men taking antibiotics could cut rates of bacterial vaginosis in women

Mind

Do we all see red as the same colour? We finally have an answer

Health

Norovirus vaccine pill shows promise against ‘winter vomiting’ bug

Space

Two huge black holes merged into one and went flying across the cosmos

Life

The secret of how Greenland sharks can live cancer-free for 400 years

Analysis

Health

Ozempic is increasingly being linked to vision loss. What鈥檚 the truth?

Drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy could raise the risk of a rare form of vision loss, but we are still trying to unpick why

Health

Does education help build a cognitive reserve to ward off dementia?

Aperture

Nuke Image Round

Physics

Hypnotic art has its roots in the terrifying reality of nuclear bombs

In his Atomic series, artist James Stanford showcases "the spectacle and the horror" of growing up near a nuclear bomb testing site

Features

Health

A fresh understanding of tiredness reveals how to get your energy back

Radical new insights from the science of interoception 鈥� how the body senses its internal state 鈥� explain the real reasons we feel tired all the time, and how to re-energise

Humans

The epic scientific quest to reveal what makes folktales so compelling

Physics

The physicist on a mission to spark a quantum industrial revolution

Culture

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Humans

Are we really doomed? An entertaining guide to humanity’s extinction

Few people could write so genially, even humorously, about our existential crisis. Henry Gee can, in his excellent new book The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire

Physics

Exhibition uses art to explore the mysteries of the quantum world

Earth

快猫短视频 recommends the esoteric Dinosaurland Fossil Museum

Society

Terrific drama shows the battle for girls’ education in Afghanistan

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Technology

Content moderation offers little actual safety on Big Social Media

Whether social media sites police their platforms using humans or algorithms, content moderation isn't keeping users safe, says Jess Brough

Health

How we could achieve dog-level sense of smell 鈥� and what it would mean

Mathematics

How breaking the rules of tic-tac-toe makes it way more fun

Tom Gauld on the correct way to refer to space junk

Twisteddoodles on lab books as literary genres

Regulars

Comment

Is this the most glorious retraction notice a journal has ever made?

Feedback would like to bring to readers' attention the retraction of five psychology articles by Nicolas Gu茅guen, including a "field study" into "bust size and hitchhiking"

This Week鈥檚 Letters

We know how matter took shape, but how was space formed?

Is the volume of gas at top of a beer bottle the same for all beers?

This week鈥檚 new questions

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