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Simple, conceptual image of loose pain killers on a plain white surface. They are three colours, red, white and blue. They cast shadows.

Trump’s unfounded health claims cast a long shadow

Space

Do black holes exist and, if not, what have we really been looking at?

Health

The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being cooked up in the lab

Environment

‘We’re precipitating an extermination rather than an extinction event’

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Leaders

Simple, conceptual image of loose pain killers on a plain white surface. They are three colours, red, white and blue. They cast shadows.

Trump’s unfounded health claims cast a long shadow

Adding flawed advice to the information overload around pregnancy is likely to cause harm, especially when there are few good ways to combat scientific misinformation

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An Extinct-in-the-wild Socorro dove chick (right) and its father at Whipsnade Zoo (c) Whipsnade Zoo

Life

See the first-ever Socorro dove to hatch at Whipsnade Zoo

This rare species of bird has been extinct in the wild since 1972, but is now being brought back thanks to an international breeding programme

Humans

Reconstructed skull gives surprising clues to our enigmatic Ancestor X

Space

Did a star blow up and hit Earth 10 million years ago?

Health

How fast you age may be controlled by a DNA repair boss in your cells

Environment

Atmospheric chaos has sent temperatures soaring in Antarctica

Health

World鈥檚 oldest person had a young microbiome and ‘exceptional genome’

Life

Cheetahs naturally turned into mummies in caves in Saudi Arabia

Environment

Could we have cracked one of the world’s toughest climate problems?

Chemistry

Nanoparticles may be the secret ingredient in making ultimate plastics

Health

Huntington鈥檚 disease breakthrough: what to know about the gene therapy

Physics

Ultracold clocks could reveal how quantum physics alters time

Environment

Climate change is making trees grow larger in the Amazon rainforest

Space

We finally found the hot wind coming out of our black hole

Mind

Babies’ brains ‘tick’ more slowly than ours, which may help them learn

Technology

Device with 6100 qubits is a step towards largest quantum computer yet

Mind

Mapping the structure of the brain doesn’t fully explain its function

Space

Venus has lava tubes, and they’re weird

Life

Dinosaur found with a crocodile in its jaws named as new species

Physics

Hints of exotic dark matter particles could be hiding in LHC data

Analysis

Health

What we know, and don’t, about the link between painkillers and autism

Scientific evidence is lacking to support the US government鈥檚 decisions to caution against using a common painkiller in pregnancy and fast-track the approval of an experimental medication for autism

Aperture

Trefoil Horseshoe Bats (Rhinolophus trifoliatus) range throughout most of Southeast Asia, living in understory forests. It roosts alone in foliage, including beneath palm and rattan leaves. and hunts by listening and waiting for insects to fly by it's feeding perches. Portraits

Life

Endearing photos of bats show clever adaptations like long tongues

In his book The Genius Bat, ecologist Yossi Yovel explains why these mammals are a vital part of ecosystems, pollinating plants and keeping insect populations in check

Features

Space

Do black holes exist and, if not, what have we really been looking at?

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if they are instead gravastars, fuzzballs or something else entirely

Health

The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being cooked up in the lab

Environment

‘We’re precipitating an extermination rather than an extinction event’

Culture

TOPSHOT - This picture taken on October 11, 2023 shows an aerial view of buildings destroyed by Israeli air strikes in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City. Israel declared war on Hamas on October 8 following a shock land, air and sea assault by the Gaza-based Islamists. The death toll from the shock cross-border assault by Hamas militants rose to 1,200, making it the deadliest attack in the country's 75-year history, while Gaza officials reported more than 900 people killed as Israel pounded the territory with air strikes. (Photo by Yahya HASSOUNA / AFP) (Photo by YAHYA HASSOUNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Mind

A terrifying book dissects the neuroscience of warfare

Warhead by neuroscientist Nicholas Wright is an alarming insider account of how our brains influence conflict 鈥� and how those brains were, in turn, shaped by war, finds Elle Hunt

Health

Exploring PMS is a great idea, but The Period Brain can be simplistic

Space

快猫短视频 recommends Chris Hadfield’s Final Orbit

Disturbing Netflix mystery explores a world out to ‘solve’ adolescence

More

Comment

Why abandoning psychedelic research in the 1970s was a blow to science

Work on medical uses of mind-altering substances was sidelined for decades by the political backlash against drugs, a misstep that has echoes in today鈥檚 intolerance of some fields of study

Space

Why ‘beauty factories’ could solve two massive cosmological mysteries

Space

Prepare to enjoy four spectacular supermoons in a row

Tom Gauld on the power of intricate formulae

Twisteddoodles on updating lecture slides (or not)

Regulars

Comment

What might the humble house mouse be trying to tell us?

Feedback is amazed to find that the audible vocalisations of the house mouse is all but unstudied in favour of the ultrasonic sounds humans can鈥檛 hear. SQUEAK!

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Why are there 60 seconds in a聽minute and 60 minutes in an hour? part 2

What would happen if water had no meniscus or surface tension?

I want to warm up fast, should I put on聽my trousers or my top first?

This week鈥檚 new questions

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