We can curb surging covid-19 cases – but we can't do it without data
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This week's magazine
On the cover
Editor's picks
Mind
Why spending time near water gives us a powerful mental health boost
Features
Environment
Bees vs wasps: Which insect is really worthy of all the buzz?
Features
Life
Rock pooling with an expert reveals all manner of evolutionary marvels
Features
Mathematics
How many knots exist? A new computing trick is untangling the answer
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
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Technology
Gel-coated battery could stop mobile phones catching fire or exploding
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Life
Snapping shrimps have helmets to ward off shock waves from their claws
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Health
Drugs used to treat ADHD and depression may ease Alzheimer's symptoms
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Life
Optimising crop genetics could double global wheat production
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Environment
Bats in Germany are riddled with pesticides and toxic pollutants
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Life
Meraxes gigas was a huge dinosaur with tiny arms like T. rex
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Technology
AI can convert almost any 3D scene into the style of a famous artwork
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Technology
Computer component could use as little energy as physically possible
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Technology
AI can use your brainwaves to see things that you can't
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Life
Southern fin whales have recovered to large numbers in the Antarctic
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Technology
DeepMind AI learns physics by watching videos that don't make sense
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Health
Infertility in some men may be caused by X chromosome mutations
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Health
UK's latest omicron wave being driven by BA.4 and BA.5 covid variants
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Life
Three-eyed predator stalked the seas 500 million years ago
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Space
10 per cent chance falling rockets will hit someone in next decade
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Space
How the James Webb Space Telescope's first colour images were made
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Technology
Efforts to regulate 'killer robots' are threatened by war in Ukraine
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Life
Hurricane that hit Jamaica helped low-lying trees spread to mountains
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Health
Men may eat more in summer because sunlight makes them hungrier
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Space
James Webb Space Telescope’s first deep-field image is stunning
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Society
UK scientists in EU funding limbo after Boris Johnson's resignation
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