This week's magazine

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Health

Even healthy snacks could be causing hidden damage to your body

Regardless of how much you are eating, constant snacking could be playing havoc with your metabolism. It is time to go back to proper meals

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Health

Coronavirus vaccines could cut the risk of long covid by two-fifths

Being vaccinated against the coronavirus can cut the risk of having long covid symptoms 12 weeks after the infection by 41 per cent

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Space

Earth’s surface may be teeming with trillions of dark matter particles

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Life

Dogs can smell when we're stressed from our breath and sweat

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Space

Light from a quasar shows hints of one of the universe’s first stars

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Technology

Robotic pill that delivers drugs to gut could end insulin injections

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Health

Air pollution raises our risk of a stroke and its later complications

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Life

Newly recognised species of sloth has a head like a coconut

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Space

SpaceX may help the Hubble Space Telescope boost its lifespan

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Health

Fewer boys born in England and Wales in early stage of the pandemic

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Health

Uganda struggles to contain Ebola variant with no approved vaccine

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Health

'Superagers' with sharp memories in their 80s have larger neurons

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Space

A long-lost rogue planet could explain unexpectedly distant asteroids

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Health

Nobel prize awarded for study of human evolution using ancient DNA

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Environment

Nord Stream pipes leaked 'enormous' amount of methane into atmosphere

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Environment

Hurricane Ian has left thousands without power and clean water

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Physics

Nobel prize in physics awarded to pioneers of quantum information

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Analysis

Technology

Who should own the copyright on AI-generated artwork?

Artificial intelligences can create images inspired by the human-generated art they train on. This is raising concerns over copyright and artists’ livelihoods

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Technology

Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson wants to build a metaverse open to all

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Health

NHS invites 12 million people to have booster to ward off 'twindemic'

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Health

Alzheimer’s drug results are promising – but not a major breakthrough

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Environment

Could Labour's Great British Energy firm spark a green revolution?

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Environment

How will Germany navigate its gas shortage nightmare this winter?

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Humans

I am planning my wife's woodland burial, but green funerals are costly

Comment

Environment

Why the UK government's attack on nature cannot be allowed to succeed

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Aperture

Earth

Dazzling photograph of pink-breasted galahs in Australian desert

This image of a flock of galahs taking off from a tree was captured by artist and photographer Christian Spencer, while out driving in Australia's Strzelecki desert

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Features

Humans

Why ancient Nubia is finally emerging from Egypt’s long shadow

Archaeologists once viewed ancient Nubia as separate from and inferior to Egypt. But research is now showing the Nubians had their own rich culture that powerfully influenced the land of the pharaohs

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Space

Did magnetism shape the universe? An epic experiment suggests it did

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Health

How hacking your metabolism can help you burn fat and prevent disease

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Culture

Humans

Two eye-opening new books delve into the world of animal communication

Tom Mustill's How to Speak Whale and Karen Bakker's The Sounds of Life explore what we know about the way life on Earth communicates, from whales to coral reefs. They are both must-reads

Culture

Environment

Nuclear Now review: Oliver Stone's paean to a nuclear future

Culture

Humans

Don't miss: Physicist Les Johnson's A Traveler's Guide to the Stars

Culture

Humans

Has a recent glut of fantasy shows pushed sci-fi out of the limelight?

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More

Puzzle #188: Can you work out who won the football tournament?

Can you solve this week’s arithmetical puzzle, Four forgetful footballers? Plus the answer to puzzle #187

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Space

Watch out for three meteor showers set to occur in October

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Tom Gauld on messages from advanced alien civilisations

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Twisteddoodles on Cancer, Leo and Aquarius

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Lifting the curtain on a century-old theatre trapdoor seating system

Feedback wonders whether Louis J. Duprey’s incredible 100-year-old pop-up seating system might be helpful for covid times, while also delving into research about the exact shape of personal space

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Letters

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