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Look to the future • The next leader of India should grab the chance to play a key role in our climate fight

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The Horsehead Nebula’s fluffy top

Is India ready to be a climate leader? • As the world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, India’s climate policy will shape the fate of the planet. But developing its economy while keeping emissions down will be tough, says James Dinneen

India’s changing energy mix

Deepfakes may have a big influence on India’s election

The world’s largest medical system • In the past 10 years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has worked to improve well-being in India, but much more progress is needed to look after 1.4 billion people, says Grace Wade

Can India secure its future by building a powerful computer chip industry?

How India has slowly become a major player in space

Medicines can help gambling addiction • The drugs nalmefene and naltrexone show promise for treating compulsive gambling

Hospital AI that flags raised risk of death helps save lives

Wasps have specific brain cells for recognising faces

Plastic pollution treaty would be a ‘failure’ without tackling emissions

How the US is preparing for a potential bird flu pandemic

Birthplace of red asteroid pinned to specific moon crater

Car tyre chemicals can get into food • Crops can take up toxic chemicals produced as tyres wear out, but the health risks are unclear

Alpaca sex causes injuries that may boost pregnancies

Fusion experiment overcomes two key operating hurdles

Diet may influence the flu vaccine’s efficacy

Giant black holes nurture small ones • The accretion discs of supermassive black holes may provide a place for mini black holes to grow

Culling starfish conserves coral on Great Barrier Reef

Sex differences in brain activity • The brain activity of fetuses and babies seems to become less complicated as they develop and it happens faster in males than females, finds Moheb Costandi

Quantum force used to make tiny device

Rat brain cells let mice smell again

Modern rose hybrids lack genetic diversity

Really brief

The good old days? • Nostalgia isn’t only about a rose-tinted view of the past. It can also be put to use in unexpected places – including work, says Agnes Arnold-Forster

Field notes from space-time • Turn out the lights Our shift to LEDs is stopping us from seeing the night skies. The way we illuminate the world needs to be part of our green agenda, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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A fix for our weighty problem? • The use of Ozempic as a weight-loss drug signals a new approach to tackling obesity. Clare Wilson explores a riveting, if flawed, first-person account

Life in the multiverse • A sci-fi thriller sees physics professor Jason kidnapped by a version of himself, out to take over his life, finds Josh Bell

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