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Surprise ocean means ‘you could have liquid water almost anywhere’. Plus, a cancer mutation supercharges T cells and the batteries that could power an electric revolution.
An expedition that drilled into the sea floor near the Greek island discovered signs of a huge eruption more than half a million years ago. Plus, the ambitious EU climate strategy and how self-propelled fluids play sudoku.
What scientists think of brain-computer interface company Neuralink’s first human trial. Plus, an AI system learnt language by seeing the world through a baby’s eyes and how ChatGPT could sway climate-change deniers.
Evidence from marine sponges suggests that the planet has already passed global warming milestone. Plus, text revealed from inside a scroll burnt by Vesuvius and record demand for JWST telescope time.
If an S-shaped sprinkler sucks instead of sprays, which way does it spin? Plus, the month’s best science images and what scientists think of the Neuralink human trial.
A molecular coating found on the X chromosome might be one of the reasons women account for around 80% of all cases of autoimmune disease. Plus, an alternative to qubits for quantum computers and how AI learns language through a baby’s eyes.
Landmark study of links between maternal health and fetal development is among the first to look at the genetic profiles of East Asian people. Plus, how sea otters protect shorelines from erosion and what’s behind the alarming surge of measles in Europe.
Nocturnal insects’ instinct to keep their back to the light makes them appear attracted to lamps. Plus, the emerging field of cancer neuroscience and the cognitive benefits of playing an instrument.
Automating visual tasks using computer vision probably won’t be worth it for many companies. Plus, two-faced AI can learn to hide deception and butterfly effect found in ChatGPT prompts.
A small study seems to suggest that proteins related to the neurodegenerative disease can be transferred from person to person through surgical procedures. Plus, Japan’s Moon lander makes a comeback and ‘wildly weird’ scraps of genetic material discovered in gut microbes.
Anti-obesity drugs’ anti-inflammation effect raises hopes that they could be used to treat diseases characterized by brain inflammation. Plus, a manatee-shaped nebula revealed a source of cosmic rays and poverty’s corrosive effects are also social and psychological.
Pollution-causing emissions from the oil sands are up to 64 times greater than reported by industry. Plus, the Marscopter will not fly again, and a marsupial that lives fast and dies young.
For the first time, predicted protein structures have been shown to be just as useful for drug discovery as experimentally derived ones. Plus, a plant-inspired robot that grows like a vine and how an AI figured out geometry.
What we’ll learn from the long process of decommissioning the pioneering JET reactor. Plus, China’s new dark matter lab is the biggest and deepest yet, and the debate over whether megalodon was stocky or slim.
Japan has become the fifth country to land a lunar spacecraft. Plus, Nature’s pick of the technologies to get excited about and how to go further with open science.
Remembering life at Bell Labs’ ‘factory of ideas’ as it moves home. Plus, AlphaFold can find potential new psychedelics and biomarkers predict the risk of long COVID.
A drug called simnotrelvir speeds up recovery from mild to moderate COVID-19. Plus, an algorithm that is as good at geometry as maths-Olympiad gold medallists and new evidence challenges claim that the Black Death shaped the human genome.
Projects to test competing theories of consciousness are raising hopes that we’re making progress on one of science’s most intractable questions. Plus, a cloned rhesus monkey lives to adulthood for first time and what a 92-year-old elite athlete teaches us about healthy ageing.