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26 June 2021

Issue 3340

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Long covid: We have ignored post-viral syndromes for too long

Health

Long covid: We have ignored post-viral syndromes for too long

News
The surprising, ancient origins of TB, humanity's most deadly disease

Health

The surprising, ancient origins of TB, humanity's most deadly disease

Features
Can we use nudge theory to help endangered animals save themselves?

Life

Can we use nudge theory to help endangered animals save themselves?

Features
The hunt for a primordial force that would revolutionise cosmology

Physics

The hunt for a primordial force that would revolutionise cosmology

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

Long covid: We have ignored post-viral syndromes for too long

Health

Long covid: We have ignored post-viral syndromes for too long

IN JUNE last year, we first reported in detail on the "strange and debilitating" coronavirus symptoms that were crippling some people's health for months after infection. Long covid , as we now know it, is indeed strange and mysterious in many ways, as we report on page 10. But it isn't surprising. Post-viral syndromes, which …

News

News

Autonomous walking excavator can build walls and dig trenches

Technology

Autonomous walking excavator can build walls and dig trenches

This walking excavator operates on its own A prototype of an autonomous construction vehicle weighing 12 tonnes has demonstrated that it can operate on very difficult terrain without a human operator. A Swiss-German team has become the first to successfully convert a type of excavator that can "walk" on extendable struts and handle steep slopes …

News

Space

Mysterious dimming of Betelgeuse was the result of star ejecting gas

News

Physics

LIGO mirrors cooled to near absolute zero could probe quantum gravity

News

Life

Selfish genes fight each other with DNA-destroying CRISPR systems

News

Technology

Google and Facebook hit by faulty chips that can silently corrupt data

News

Environment

60 per cent of world’s rivers stop flowing for at least one day a year

News

Technology

Flaw in old mobile phone encryption code could be used for snooping

News

Life

Young eels escape from the mouths of fish by wriggling out the gills

News

Humans

Female inventors hold just a quarter of US biomedical patents

News

Humans

Europeans used to open their relatives’ graves to recover heirlooms

News

Humans

A 1000-year-old Indian temple had an early form of air conditioning

News

Space

Pluto is covered in huge red patches and we don't know what they are

News

Technology

Quantum data link established between two distant Chinese cities

News

Life

Snakes know how much venom they have and won't attack if running low

News

Health

Psoriasis drug could be used to help people stop drinking alcohol

News

Military comes to aid of South Africa's hospitals amid third wave

News

Health

Long covid: Do I have it, how long will it last and can we treat it?

News

Health

Inside the UK’s first long covid clinic: ‘It was life-changing’

News

Analysis

The gender pain gap has gone on for too long – it's time we closed it

Health

The gender pain gap has gone on for too long – it's time we closed it

IN 1807, a 77-year-old woman from Liverpool, UK, known as J. S, died after years of pain in her uterus . She had consulted several physicians, but none could explain the cause. A postmortem revealed extensive damage in her pelvic and abdominal organs. But the last physician she saw, John Rutter, wasn't convinced that any …

News

Space

Why the big bang may not have been the beginning of the universe

News

Aperture

Magical image of ‘tree island’ shortlisted for major photo prize

Humans

Magical image of ‘tree island’ shortlisted for major photo prize

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoZpuevT4dg Photographers: Antonio Pérez, Yevhen Samuchenko, Ju Shen Lee, Roberto Buenov THESE captivating photos each tell a powerful story about human influence on the planet. The images are among shortlisted entries for Earth Photo 2021, a global photography and video competition developed by the UK’s Royal Geographical Society and Forestry England. Above is an image …

Regulars

Features

The hunt for a primordial force that would revolutionise cosmology

Physics

The hunt for a primordial force that would revolutionise cosmology

Finding magnetic fields dating back to the big bang would transform our understanding of how the universe evolved. Now astronomers think they're on brink of such a breakthrough

Features

Life

Can we use nudge theory to help endangered animals save themselves?

Features

Health

The surprising, ancient origins of TB, humanity's most deadly disease

Features

Culture

Gus (Christian Convery) in Sweet Tooth

Life

Sweet Tooth Review: An eccentric mix of sci-fi and fantasy

Gus (Christian Convery) in Sweet Tooth Watching some of the fear and isolation of another pandemic won’t be for everyone, but Netflix’s Sweet Tooth is a hopeful take on coping with the fall-out of such an event. Sweet Tooth begins 10 years after The Great Crumble. A poorly understood but deadly, rapidly spreading virus has …

Culture

Humans

Katherine Johnson memoir: Her incredible life as a NASA mathematician

Culture

Humans

Fathom review: What happens when humans try to talk to whales

Culture

Humans

Don't Miss: Chris Pratt takes on aliens in Amazon's The Tomorrow War

Culture

More

Puzzle #119: How many nuts did two families have before a food fight?

Puzzle #119: How many nuts did two families have before a food fight?

#119 Nutty neighbours In Pecan Place, the Shells and the Kernels are staging their annual nut-throwing battle. The Shells have a number of Brazil nuts, while the Kernels have a different number of walnuts. Suddenly, the Shells throw a fifth of their Brazil nuts at the Kernels, while the Kernels return one-seventh of their walnuts. …

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Environment

How your seaweed-filled beach pics could help monitor climate change

Regulars

Tom Gauld's Institute for Lifespan Extension Research

Regulars

A Twisteddoodles guide to chemical bonding

Regulars

Regulars

Does quantum physics explain why parcel delivery times are so vague?

Humans

Does quantum physics explain why parcel delivery times are so vague?

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

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