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Health

Cold-water swimming: What are the real risks and health benefits?

Environment

Covid-19 hit biodiversity across the globe. Here鈥檚 how to fix things

Physics

Quantum weirdness isn鈥檛 weird 鈥� if we accept objects don鈥檛 exist

Leaders

Health

Vaccination isn鈥檛 the quick coronavirus solution many of us hoped for

Varying national approaches to dealing with the coronavirus and variance in how people respond to vaccines put new hurdles on the path to beating covid-19

A citizen in the US receives their coronavirus vaccination

Health

US allows people vaccinated against covid-19 to mix indoors again

Vaccination means freedom to mix in private properties without social distancing or wearing masks, US authorities have said, but the guidance is deemed too risky for the UK

Health

How will zero-covid countries safely reopen their borders?

Health

Giving vaccine to older people first could help the coronavirus evolve

Health

Coronavirus vaccines may reduce or eliminate symptoms of long covid

Technology

Anti-feminist YouTube and Reddit content is a gateway to the alt-right

Physics

Photonic laser thruster could power spacecraft from Earth

Life

Fairy lantern flower has a gaping ‘mouth’ and saps energy from fungi

Space

One of our most basic assumptions about the universe may be wrong

Humans

Indian stone tool may be earliest evidence of humans outside Africa

Space

Kilometre-high concrete towers on the moon could power a lunar base

Space

Planet hotter than most stars spotted 25 light years away

Space

Space junk foils astronomers observing oldest galaxy in the universe

Health

Benefits of microdosing psychedelic drugs may be due to placebo effect

Environment

Fukushima 10 years on: How locals are returning after nuclear disaster

Technology

Eagle-inspired robot flies by flapping its feather-covered wings

Humans

People of European descent evolved resistance to TB over 10,000 years

Physics

X-raying eggs while they cook reveals how egg white becomes solid

Environment

Over one-sixth of all food produced ends up being thrown in the bin

Life

Some sea slugs behead themselves and then regrow their bodies

Life

Some frogs have noise-cancelling lungs to dampen other species鈥� calls

Technology

A submersible soft robot survived the pressure in the Mariana trench

Analysis

Health

Should you get a test to measure antibodies after a covid-19 vaccine?

New "immunity tracker" tests that claim to measure your precise antibody levels after infection or a covid-19 vaccine are for sale, but the results might not be as useful as they seem

Health

Food allergies could soon become a thing of the past 鈥� here’s why

Environment

Extinction denialism is a worrying new anti-science movement

Aperture

Life

Powerful photos of African lions highlight their precarious future

In a new photography book, Lion: Pride Before the Fall, images of African lions evoke both the creatures鈥� majesty and their perilous position as these iconic big cats face extinction at the hands of humans

Regulars

Features

Physics

Quantum weirdness isn鈥檛 weird 鈥� if we accept objects don鈥檛 exist

We can grasp the truth about the quantum world, says physicist Carlo Rovelli 鈥� as long as we abandon our most cherished assumption about what鈥檚 real and what鈥檚 not

Environment

Covid-19 hit biodiversity across the globe. Here鈥檚 how to fix things

Health

Cold-water swimming: What are the real risks and health benefits?

Culture

Life

The Brilliant Abyss review: A fascinating tour of the ocean鈥檚 depths

There is an abundance of weird and wonderful life in the depths of the sea 鈥� and The Brilliant Abyss by Helen Scales is an excellent introduction to it

Humans

Don鈥檛 Miss: An Impossible Project on the shock return of analogue tech

Space

Solar Opposites review: Clever, silly and bound to be an instant hit

Humans

Why Outer Wilds is a space-exploration game that鈥檚 worth dying in