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Everyday riches • New techniques are giving us striking insights into the daily lives of ancient Egyptians

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Lula wins Brazil election • The defeat of Jair Bolsonaro, who oversaw rampant deforestation, has been hailed as a win for the Amazon, reports Luke Taylor

Urgent warnings ahead of COP27 • On the eve of the UN climate talks in Egypt, a series of reports illustrates how much further countries must go to avoid catastrophic global warming, finds Madeleine Cuff

‘This is a reality check’ • Egypt’s chief climate negotiator tells Madeleine Cuff that COP27 will focus on making sure existing promises are kept

Subvariant ‘soup’ may drive wave • The coronavirus subvariants BQ.1.1 and XBB may spread more readily than the original omicron variant and could evade prior immunity to some extent, writes Carissa Wong

Quantum navigation device could augment GPS

JWST shows ancient galaxy may be merging with another

Rhino horns have got smaller • Archive photos suggest poaching may have driven evolutionary changes in five species

Stellar smash could reveal quark matter

Large cities increase segregation • Lack of mixing between high and low-income people in US cities seen in location data

Using AI to train robot dogs makes them cheaper

Hints at how to improve vaccine protection

Houseplants modified to mop up pollutants

Modified insects may curb disease • Brazil has tested male mosquitoes engineered to express a gene that kills off female offspring, which bite and transmit infections, writes Miriam Fauzia

Mars may still have magma • Seismic studies are revealing details of the Red Planet’s finer structure

Brown centipedes swim by wiggling the ‘wrong way’

Probiotic helps overweight people lose pounds

Droughts may have kick-started industrial revolution

Neutron stars may fire neutrino beams like a laser light show

AIs can outperform humans when instructed to think step by step

US Army bullets found at 1918 massacre site

Shutterstock to sell AI-generated art

Simple sound can ease nightmares

Fossil shows what lizard ancestors looked like

Really brief

Give solar the green light • The construction of solar plants on farmland in England has come under attack. But a ban would be a grave error, says Michael Le Page

No Planet B • The real anti-growth coalition The idea environmentalists are part of the Tories’ imaginary “anti-growth coalition” is grotesque. All evidence points the other way, says tofu fan Graham Lawton

Editor’s pick

Fit for a king

Secrets of the stones • A fascinating new exhibition tells the story of the cracking of Egypt’s hieroglyphic code, finds Joshua Howgego

Return of the boy king • After 100 years, the story of Tutankhamun and his tomb still amazes us. Does a new book add much, asks Jo Marchant

Don’t miss

The TV column • Out of the tomb A pacy documentary does a great job of revealing the latest about Tutankhamun and Howard Carter, who discovered his tomb. It also revives vivid childhood memories of my first encounter with the boy king, says Bethan Ackerley

Scanning the pharaohs • The lost world of ancient Egypt is coming into sharper focus than ever before as archaeology...