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Research imbalance • The complexities of female sex hormones call for more science, not less

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Reservoir running low

Clues to the origin of complex life • Strange microbes called Asgard archaea living in wetlands in China are helping unravel the history of the cells that make up all plants and animals, finds Michael Marshall

Fossil tracks rewrite history of animals leaving water to live on land

Does intermittent fasting improve gut health? • Restricting when you eat may have health benefits, but the question is far from settled, finds Grace Wade

Alien Dyson spheres may self-destruct before we spot them

We emit a ghostly glow that gets snuffed out when we die

Faster way to locate landslides could help rescue efforts

The supernova from another galaxy • Kepler’s Supernova may have come from outside the Milky Way – and it isn’t alone

Parkinson’s could be detected by listening to someone’s voice

Migraine drug eases early symptoms like dizziness

How ancient humans survived a global climate catastrophe

China sees a drastic rise in dementia cases

Hydrogen may be hiding in mountains

Tiny frog, big discovery • Beautiful poison dart frog is a species new to science

Europe under threat from giant hailstones

A mindful approach to chronic pain • People have reported less pain after taking part in a therapy focused on emotional regulation

Chimps and humans share a sense of rhythm

Major cities across the US are sinking at a rapid rate

Fighting quantum with quantum

Shingles vaccine could also boost your heart health

Almost all of the deep seabed remains unexplored

How deep are quantum relationships? • Measuring the strength of links between quantum objects places limits on reality

The birds upending our idea of shared parenting

Spotting a murderer • There are serious issues with new proposals to use artificial intelligence to predict future crimes, says Yu Xiong

Field notes from space-time • Conflict resolution The discovery of the cosmic acceleration problem inspired me as a teenage physics nerd. News about dark energy is just as incredible, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Sleeping giants

Whose final frontier? • In highly politicised times, is living off-world something we should entertain, let alone do? Christie Taylor aims a tough lens at this futurist dream

How to make a zombie • A grisly, compelling read takes us deep into the world of parasites that hijack the minds of their hosts, finds Sophie Bushwick

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The film column • Going down singing In a luxury survival bunker, a rich family lie to each other as Earth’s surface becomes unviable. But things change when a young woman stumbles on them in The End, a wonderful, end-of-the-world musical drama, says Simon Ings

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Defying gravity • It has long seemed completely impossible to test one of the most important questions in physics: is gravity a quantum force? But new experiments might just pull it off, says Jon Cartwright

Breath of life • Humans can’t survive on fresh air alone – but we might be able to get a surprising number of nutrients from it, discovers Graham Lawton

How aeronutrients could work

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