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This week's magazine
27 February 2021
Issue 3323
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
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Space
Perseverance rover has sent back stunning video and audio from Mars
NASA鈥檚 Perseverance rover has sent back incredible video footage from throughout its landing on Mars, as well as the first audio recordings from the Red Planet
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Health
First universal coronavirus vaccine will start human trials this year
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Health
Children are getting long covid and being left with lasting problems
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Technology
The US Army is building the most powerful laser weapon in the world
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Technology
Sharing your route in advance could cut electric car charging queue
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Environment
Using mountains as ‘water batteries’ could cut UK’s nuclear power need
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Humans
Australia’s oldest known rock art is a 17,000-year-old kangaroo
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Life
Deepest land-dwelling microbes found at bottom of 5km hole in China
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Space
We’ve spotted a neutrino blasted out by a black hole shredding a star
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Space
Juno spacecraft spots meteor fireball lighting up Jupiter鈥檚 skies
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Environment
Exclusive: On board the mission to one of the world鈥檚 largest icebergs
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Life
First million-year-old DNA extracted from Siberian mammoth teeth
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Life
Knifefish use electric fields to develop a complex social hierarchy
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Technology
Soft gel could power robot muscles that grow stronger with a workout
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Space
Sun’s bumpy magnetic fields might explain why its atmosphere is so hot
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Humans
Soil safely filters 38 million tonnes of human waste each year
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Technology
People can answer questions about their dreams without waking up
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A tiny spider can spin different types of web for land, air and water
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Health
First real world covid-19 vaccine studies show ‘spectacular’ results
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Life
Some frogs stop being able to jump if they become dehydrated
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Analysis
Features
Health
Metabolism myths: 7 things we get wrong about diet and exercise
Despite what you might have heard, your body is not a simple calorie-burning engine you can tweak at will to keep trim and stay healthy. Here are seven metabolic misconceptions you need to know
Features
Environment
How to spend a trillion dollars to fix climate change and end poverty
Features
Humans
The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation
Features
Culture
Mind
Synchronic review: A genuinely hair-raising time travel thriller
Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan star in Synchronic, a thrilling film about a strange drug that sends you back in time
Culture
Humans
Don’t Miss: Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel about AIs and love
Culture
The Echo Wife review: A darkly comedic look at the risks of cloning
Culture
Space
Netflix’s Space Sweepers review: A silly but profound space opera
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Environment
Top tips for stopping slugs and snails wrecking your garden every year
Slugs and snails can wreak on flowers and food alike in your garden. Here's how to join the resistance and fight back, writes Clare Wilson
Regulars
Twisteddoodles on every academic article ever
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Tom Gauld on when next door’s robot is vastly superior
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Even the AIs have started judging you on your bookcase backdrops
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This week鈥檚 new questions
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How does our brain stop us falling out of bed while asleep?
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Does long and short-sightedness affect other animals? If so, how do they cope?
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Do we perceive colours around us differently to others? (continued)
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