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Subatomic safari • Explore the quantum world with our grand tour of reality at its smallest scales
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A giant of the dinosaur era
Information can survive a black hole • A decades-old paradox uncovered by Stephen Hawking may be solved
Oxygen-sucking battery rids mice of breast cancer
Material impervious to radiation could be used in spaceships
A mental workout could help clear out your brain’s waste
A childhood like no other • Australia’s policy of detaining child asylum seekers, in some cases for years, has had long-lasting effects on their health, finds Alice Klein
Analysis UK carbon budget • The UK’s five big climate bets Reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 will require huge transformations across the whole of the country. Madeleine Cuff examines the government’s key plans
Microplastics may increase how much fat the body absorbs
Explosive can’t detonate unless filled with fluid
T. rex was lippy rather than toothy • Predatory dinosaurs had their terrifying teeth mostly hidden from view behind scaly lips
AI text detection is mathematically impossible
Proton’s size is a moveable feast • The radius of this subatomic particle seems to vary depending on how you look at it
Male mosquitoes may use humans as a hook-up spot
New way to predict river flood risk could help avoid disasters
Ukraine is building an AI to help triage shrapnel injuries
Start-up is developing world’s first ammonia-powered ships
Ultra-tough battery survives hammering and being run over
Nanosyringes inject drugs into cells • Structures made by bacteria could help us deliver treatments in a more targeted way
Ants farm fungus to create “cement” for sturdy nests
Humans may not yet have hit the biological limit of our lifespan
Biggest explosion ever keeps baffling astronomers
JWST spots earliest black hole ever seen
Delicate glass items made using origami
Cockroaches adapt mating strategy due to poison bait
Really brief
Stand up for Earth • Comedy could really make the message about the climate crisis hit home, says Bill McGuire (with help from Kiri Pritchard-McLean)
No planet B • A river runs through it The declaration of the Vjosa in Albania as Europe’s first Wild River National Park is a major win. Shame about the airport planned for the river’s delta, says Graham Lawton
Solar power
Your letters
Rooting out racism in health • A legacy of racism in Western medicine means healthcare is badly in need of decolonising. Layal Liverpool dissects a book that sets out why
Little marvels • We need insects more than they need us. An excellent guide to these tiny creatures reminds us why, says Richard Smyth
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