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Leaders

Environment

Billionaires must not be allowed to geoengineer the planet

There is nothing stopping the wealthiest people from attempting to alter the world's atmosphere – this must not be allowed to happen

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News

Environment

Exclusive: Climate scientists expect attempts to dim the sun by 2100

An exclusive �鶹��ý survey of leading scientists reveals widespread concern that schemes to tweak Earth’s atmosphere could launch within decades in a risky bid to cool the planet

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Mind

Paralysed man can feel objects through another person's hand

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Humans

Early hominin had human-like dexterity and gorilla strength

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Life

Dinosaur fossil rewrites the story of how sauropods got long necks

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Mind

School phone bans may actually harm some students' mental health

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Space

The centre of our galaxy may be teeming with dark matter particles

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Health

Replacing sugar with artificial sweetener may help your gut microbiome

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Humans

Neanderthal-human hybrids may have been scourged by a genetic mismatch

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Space

See a spectacular shot of a once-in-a-millennium comet

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Analysis

Technology

The AI bubble is heading towards a burst but it won't be the end of AI

Economists, bankers and even the boss of OpenAI are warning of a rapidly inflating AI bubble. If and when it bursts, what will happen to the technological breakthroughs of the past few years?

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Aperture

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See all the action from this year's �鶹��ý Live

From Chris Packham to Big Manny, there were talks galore at this weekend's �鶹��ý Live, along with plenty of exhibits

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Features

Mind

What 350 different theories of consciousness reveal about reality

There are hundreds of coherent theories attempting to explain the origins of experience. Robert Lawrence Kuhn explores what they reveal about free will, artificial intelligence and life after death

Features

Earth

How worried should we be about noxious chemicals from dead satellites?

Features

Health

Everything is perimenopause now – but what if it’s not?

Features

Health

The extraordinary influence of the lymphatic system on our health

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Culture

Environment

An excellent guide to the labyrinthine world of COP summits

In the run-up to this year's COP in Brazil, Madeleine Cuff explores The Climate Diplomat, a poignant account by the late Peter Betts, a negotiator who showed what diplomacy can achieve

Culture

Health

Chilling book exposes true cost of tech bros' immortality dreams

Culture

Comment

�鶹��ý recommends Material World at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Culture

Environment

Must-watch documentary shows how Bush Senior failed the climate

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More

Mind

Horror fans aren't cold and unfeeling – just listen to the science

The prevailing wisdom is that horror fans lack empathy and are addicted to adrenaline. My research shows otherwise, says Coltan Scrivner

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Society

Could a self-monitoring system for criminals replace prisons one day?

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Health

Why group exercise is better than working out alone

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Tom Gauld on returning a particular subject to its natural habitat

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Twisteddoodles: dissolve powder A in liquid B and see what happens...

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Comment

This paper should win a prize for its refusal to make any big claims

Feedback delights in a 2018 paper that takes care to warn us it reveals “nothing like super interesting”, and embarks on a quest to find more examples of disarming honesty

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Letters

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The last word