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Star potential • Despite a history of hype around fusion, there is good reason for renewed optimism
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Bird flu runs rife in the UK • Officials announce new biosecurity measures across the country as it prepares for its worst ever outbreak, reports Madeleine Cuff
Neanderthal family values • Analysis of DNA from a cave in Siberia has provided insights into the way our prehistoric relatives lived, reports Michael Le Page
Empires left legacy on global spread of non-native plants
Transplanted livers can function for a total of over 100 years
Most precise measurement of a particle ever made
Childhood vaccine uptake in England varies with ethnicity
Female robins are just as skilful at singing as males
Can Europe avoid blackouts? • The energy crisis will reach a crunch point as winter begins in Europe, with governments hoping they can cut consumption fast, as Carissa Wong reports
Giant of the seas • Although it was found dead, there is a new heaviest bony fish
Neutron stars’ jet seems to break cosmic limit
Menstrual cycles vary among different ethnic groups
Mind-reading AI decodes thoughts from brain scans
UK unprepared for next pandemic • Kate Bingham, former head of the UK’s Vaccine Taskforce, says the government hasn’t done enough to get ready for future disease threats, reports Clare Wilson
Nord Stream leak may be largest ever • First measurements of pipeline leak show it may be the biggest methane emission seen
Gel made from okra stops bleeding in damaged hearts
Human neurons transplanted into young rats’ brains
Black widows can remember their prey when it is stolen
Wildlife populations are declining on a ‘devastating’ scale, says WWF
Wobbling black holes prove Albert Einstein right
Robot boot helps you walk faster
Penguin’s first egg is always doomed
Differences in height linked to multitude of DNA variants
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Another sort of gold • Faced with the destruction of the living world, we need a new kind of treasure. It is there, if we could agree to see it, says Katherine Rundell
Wild Wild Life • Pumpkin to talk about Squashes have an intriguing evolutionary history, eaten in the wild by now-extinct megafauna and first domesticated 10,000 years ago, finds Penny Sarchet
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Expert opinion: Key quotes from some of Greta Thunberg’s contributors
A library for a better world • Greta Thunberg has enticed more than 100 experts to write about the climate crisis. No one else could have created this essential resource, says Rowan Hooper
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The sci-fi column • The trouble with consciousness What is it to be conscious, and why do we simultaneously seek it out and dread it in other entities? Ray Nayler’s staggering book has grand ambitions, and even provides a few answers, finds Sally Adee
THE NEW AGE OF FUSION • As advances accumulate, firms are promising commercial fusion reactors within a decade. Is there any reason to believe them, asks Thomas Lewton
Life from death • Ecologists have neglected mortality’s role in maintaining ecosystems, says Laura Spinney
Mystery of the missing cod
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