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Dogs holding green vegetables in their mouths

Environment

Vegan pet food: Can cats and dogs be happy and healthy without meat?

Humans

Nature, nurture, luck: Why you are more than just genes and upbringing

Physics

Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw confront the black hole information paradox

Leaders

Humans

Luck may influence us more than nurture, so let’s give parents a break

Emerging research suggests that, alongside genes and environment, much of who we become is down to chance occurrences in the developing brain. Does that mean parents are off the hook?

Space

NASA is ready to knock an asteroid off course with its DART spacecraft

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test is preparing to crash into the asteroid Dimorphos in an attempt to change its orbit

Health

Covid-19 pandemic linked to early onset of puberty in some girls

Environment

Global warming could kill many of the tree species that cool cities

Space

Closest black hole to Earth is just 1500 light years away

Technology

Plan to cut Ethereum energy use sees miners switch cryptocurrencies

Mind

Brain scans reveal the areas that light up when we look at food

Space

James Webb Space Telescope captures its first pictures of Mars

Health

The omicron coronavirus variant may protect against flu

Environment

Plant-based hot foam kills weeds as effectively as chemical spray

Technology

AI climate negotiators can debate 100 years worth of policy in seconds

Space

The Perseverance rover is finding more and more organic matter on Mars

Health

Radical lupus treatment uses CAR T-cell therapy developed for cancer

Health

DNA clocks suggest ageing is pre-programmed in our cells

Health

Antimicrobial drug derived from tree sap could treat chronic wounds

Physics

Einstein’s gravity principle still correct, finds most precise test

Technology

Why do AIs keep creating nightmarish images of strange characters?

Space

Weird 鈥榝ailed star鈥� seen blasting off its outer layers for first time

Environment

Bangalore floods highlight how cities must adapt to climate change

Space

Saturn’s rings could have come from a destroyed moon named Chrysalis

Humans

Hunter-gatherers kept animals for food before they farmed crops

Health

The fastest way to soothe a crying baby, according to science

Analysis

Comment

To encourage sustainability, we must remember we are apes, not angels

If we want to change our consumerist society, we need greener status signals that appeal to our animal instincts, says Solitaire Townsend

Life

Defining what constitutes a ‘new’ species isn’t straightforward

Aperture

Space

Astronomy Photographer of the Year photos are out of this world

These images are some of the winning and shortlisted entries for this year鈥檚 competition, organised by the Royal Observatory in London

Features

Humans

Nature, nurture, luck: Why you are more than just genes and upbringing

Your genes and environment play a big part in forming you, but there is an unexplored third element at play too: luck. The chance events that shape your brain in the womb may influence who you become as much as your genetics, and perhaps even more than the effect of parenting

Physics

Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw confront the black hole information paradox

Environment

Vegan pet food: Can cats and dogs be happy and healthy without meat?

Culture

A Frozen Planet II team set up to film inside a mountain glacier in Iceland

Earth

Frozen Planet II review: David Attenborough’s sequel dazzles

The spectre of climate change hangs over David Attenborough鈥檚 follow-up to Frozen Planet, while two new nature documentary series, Epic Adventures With Bertie Gregory and Super/Natural, are no match for the veteran presenter

Humans

Vesper review: Exquisite dystopian sci-fi has a Brothers Grimm edge

Humans

Don’t Miss: Galwad, a multimedia climate-responsibility experience

Humans

Two provocative new novels inject some fantasy into the sci-fi outlook

Physics

Show children how to make a simple electric motor with a magnet

Using just a magnet, a battery, a nail and a piece of copper wire, this is the simplest electric motor you can make, says Alom Shaha, but it is utterly delightful and children will love it

Tom Gauld on a mathematician in jail

Twisteddoodles on missing electrons