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10 April 2021

Issue 3329

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Editor's picks

Animal intelligence is so common, we must rethink our view of wildlife

Life

Animal intelligence is so common, we must rethink our view of wildlife

News
Human-like intelligence in animals is far more common than we thought

Life

Human-like intelligence in animals is far more common than we thought

Features
Tanja Bosak interview: How Perseverance will hunt for life on Mars

Life

Tanja Bosak interview: How Perseverance will hunt for life on Mars

Features
Why rescuing the climate and saving biodiversity go hand in hand

Environment

Why rescuing the climate and saving biodiversity go hand in hand

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

Animal intelligence is so common, we must rethink our view of wildlife

Life

Animal intelligence is so common, we must rethink our view of wildlife

Tests show that a growing number of animals have the flexible, problem-solving thinking we once thought of as our own. It's time to treat creatures with more respect

News

News

black hole artist's impression

Space

Blasts of intergalactic radiation hint at elusive mid-sized black hole

What may be a medium-sized black hole was found through the detection of a gravitationally lensed gamma-ray burst Powerful blasts of radiation from distant galaxies have revealed signs of an elusive medium-sized black hole, which may be a link between the small black holes that we have observed and the supermassive black holes that sit …

News

Humans

Football teams still get home advantage while stadiums are empty

News

Humans

People living 100,000 years ago spent time collecting crystals

News

Environment

Sponges can survive massive doses of radiation without getting cancer

News

Humans

Bronze Age dogs ate little meat and had to feed on cereals instead

News

Technology

UK nuclear fusion firms make progress towards providing clean power

News

Health

Does AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine cause blood clots in younger people?

News

Technology

Robot lizard can quickly climb a wall just like the real thing

News

Physics

Antimatter atoms can be precisely manipulated and cooled with lasers

News

Environment

Sydney’s inland suburbs are 10°C warmer than the coast in heat waves

News

Life

Stingrays in the Amazon were stranded there by the Caribbean Sea

News

Health

Handheld camera that can see radioactivity could help cancer surgeons

News

Technology

Robot guide dog could help people who are blind navigate

News

Environment

Animal culture is so common that even fish and flies have it

News

Health

Everything you need to know about covid-19 vaccines for children

News

Technology

Living robots made from frog skin cells can sense their environment

News

Life

Lions use yawns to signal to others that it’s time to get moving

News

Life

Ewes prefer to mate with submissive rams when given a choice

News

Earth

Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs gave birth to the Amazon rainforest

News

Space

Most alien civilisations risk fuelling global warming on their planets

News

Health

Covid-19 vaccine passports tested in UK as lockdown restrictions ease

News

Health

Experimental events offer glimpse of safe, post-lockdown nightlife

News

Analysis

We can't let vaccines create bad incentives that make things worse

Environment

We can't let vaccines create bad incentives that make things worse

We are starting to vaccinate our way out of the pandemic, but we shouldn't let that make us complacent about the underlying problems, writes Graham Lawton

News

Environment

Global tree loss is undermining tactics to address the climate crisis

News

Aperture

7 mesmerising images that capture underlying properties of the world

Physics

7 mesmerising images that capture underlying properties of the world

In his striking photo series, photographer Greg White has captured the essence of base quantities, irreducible measurements that underlie science

Regulars

Features

Human-like intelligence in animals is far more common than we thought

Life

Human-like intelligence in animals is far more common than we thought

Stories of clever animals abound, from pigs playing video games to monkeys trading mobile phones – now tests reveal that they don't merely act on instinct but can think flexibly, like us

Features

Environment

Why rescuing the climate and saving biodiversity go hand in hand

Features

Life

Tanja Bosak interview: How Perseverance will hunt for life on Mars

Features

Culture

Riz Ahmed plays Ruben, a former heroin addict who is facing a new crisis

Health

Sound of Metal review: Riz Ahmed's performance is Oscar-worthy

Riz Ahmed plays Ruben, a former heroin addict who is facing a new crisis Sound of Metal Amazon Prime UK, 12 April Cinemas from May 17th Listen. What can you hear? The whirring of your coffee machine, the background chatter of people talking – pre-pandemic, the hubbub of a bar or the clamour of a …

Culture

Technology

Your Computer is on Fire review: Wake up to tech's inequalities

Culture

Humans

Don’t Miss: The Beauty of Chemistry lifts the lid on nature’s wonders

Culture

Humans

5 of the best time travel video games

Culture

More

How to tenderise meat with mouth-watering marinades

Life

How to tenderise meat with mouth-watering marinades

Tasty and tender meat takes a good marinade. Testing theories behind them in the kitchen shows that it’s a trickier than it seems – but there is a clear winner, says Sam Wong

Regulars

Puzzle #108: Sherlock Holmes and the mystery of the broken clock

Regulars

Tom Gauld's archive for the impossible objects department

Regulars

Twisteddoodles on sexy scientist role play

Regulars

Regulars

The site that lets you run the Ever Given aground anywhere you fancy

Humans

The site that lets you run the Ever Given aground anywhere you fancy

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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