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Who’s keeping track? • Reclaiming our digital privacy is more vital now than ever before

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Dancing robots steal the show

Covid-19 antibodies give some immunity to SARS and MERS

Russia’s Luna 25 moon mission ends in catastrophic crash

Fires wiped out megafauna • Blazes largely due to humans killed off large mammals in California 13,000 years ago

Strange springy ice may explain how clouds make rain

IBM makes error-correction leap • Chips that connect seven qubits could make correcting errors on quantum computers easier

Consciousness traced to specific nerve cell clusters

3D-printed toilet is so slippery nothing can leave a mark

Wiping stem cells ‘clean’ could make them easier to produce

Neptune’s clouds have vanished • The sun’s activity may have stripped away the clouds that usually shroud Neptune

Negative emotions really do make time drag

Flies seem to enjoy going for a ride on a spinning carousel

Google AI predicts floods four days in advance in Africa

AI developers feel chip squeeze • The high-powered chips required for training the most advanced AIs are in short supply, creating winners and losers, reports Matthew Sparkes

Pig kidney transplant success • A kidney transplanted into a brain-dead man on life support was still functioning 32 days later

Multilingual AIs are better at responding to queries in English

Gene-edited yeast makes rice wine taste like bananas

Aliens on low-oxygen worlds may never discover fire

Ötzi the iceman may have been bald • Reanalysing the genome of Ötzi, who lived 5300 years ago and whose mummified body was found in the Alps, has changed the story of where his ancestors came from, finds Michael Marshall

Wildfires worsened by early plant growth

Lampshade can cut indoor air pollution

Blackbirds go to sleep earlier when they feel ill

Really brief

Hot dogs (and birds) • Global warming isn’t only affecting animals like polar bears. African wild dog populations may also collapse, warns Daniella Rabaiotti

No planet B • What’s in a name? Is it time to do away with species names that honour disreputable people past and present, or will that do more harm than good to biodiversity research, asks Graham Lawton

Sands of time

Your letters

Escape from a whale • A troubled young man is swallowed by a whale as he hunts for his father’s remains in a novel like nothing you have read before, says Neil McRobert

Mendel’s new place • Where does “father of genetics” Gregor Mendel fit in a post-genomic world? Simon Ings explores an excellent reset

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The games column • Finding your level Viewfinder is set in a world ravaged by climate change, where the researchers trying to help have fled. Can you retrieve their work and save the world? Success depends on cunning tricks with dimensions, says Jacob Aron

Nowhere to hide • The way your data is stored and shared online is changing – and you might be surprised to find how even mundane online activity can have a drastic influence on your life, finds Amanda Ruggeri

Wringing out the world • We have broken Earth’s water cycle. How did it come to this and is there anything we can do to fix it, asks Graham Lawton

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