This week's magazine

Table of contents

Leaders

Environment

In the race to ramp up renewables, we can't ignore heat storage

Governments must step up if we are to make good on Thermal Energy Storage's promise as a cheap and easy way to help tackle wind and solar power's intermittency problem

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Space

Astronauts could drink their own urine with water-recycling spacesuit

When astronauts go on a spacewalk, their urine is collected by what is essentially a large diaper before being thrown away, and they have less than a litre of drinking water available - but a new kind of spacesuit could solve both issues

News

Environment

Giant dome filled with CO2 could store excess power from renewables

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Health

Your pupils change size as you breathe

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Humans

Denisovan DNA may help modern humans adapt to different environments

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Health

A long-standing mystery about breastfeeding may have been solved

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Humans

The plague may have wiped out most northern Europeans 5000 years ago

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Environment

Floating whale carcasses are a problem – can we predict their drift?

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Life

Lions' record-breaking swim across channel captured by drone camera

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Health

People with Alzheimer's disease benefit from spending time with horses

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Health

Menstrual pads that turn blood solid could reduce the risk of leaks

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Life

Woolly mammoth DNA exceptionally preserved in freeze-dried 'jerky'

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Physics

You can turn any random sequence of events into a clock

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Environment

Melting sea ice is hindering, not helping, Canadian Arctic shipping

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Life

Last common ancestor of all life emerged far earlier than thought

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Health

People at risk of overdose could be fitted with an anti-opioid implant

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Space

Deep pit on moon may be entrance to cave that could act as lunar base

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Health

Bird flu cases may be going undetected in US dairy workers

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Analysis

Environment

Is a vital ocean current just decades away from catastrophic collapse?

Two studies suggest the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation could collapse by the middle of the century and wreak havoc with the climate, but such predictions are controversial

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Mind

Could we share dreams by synchronising REM sleep?

Comment

Environment

We are risking a heat disaster for athletes at the Olympics in Paris

News

Technology

Planes are under attack from GPS jamming – can we find a fix?

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Aperture

Physics

Take a look behind the scenes at the world's largest fusion experiment

Photographer Enrico Sacchetti captures the power and potential of ITER, an international nuclear fusion experiment currently under construction in southern France

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Features

Health

Why midlife is the perfect time to take control of your future health

The lifestyle choices you make in middle age play a particularly important role in how your brain ages

Features

Space

The physicist who wants to build a telescope bigger than Earth

Features

Environment

How incredibly simple tech can supercharge the race to net zero

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Culture

Comment

Would you resurrect a dead loved one with AI, asks a new documentary

The extraordinary film Eternal You probes the power of "grief technologies" – boosted by AI – to generate credible simulations of the dead, says Simon Ings

Culture

Technology

Naomi Klein on the rise of misinformation and conspiracy influencers

Culture

Comment

An entertaining history of gases shows science at work in daily life

Culture

Comment

New Scientist recommends YouTube series Journey to the Microcosmos

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More

Chemistry

How to make a perfect baked Alaska? It's all about thermodynamics

Getting this delicious cooked ice-cream dessert right requires a little bit of science know-how to avoid a melted disaster, says Catherine de Lange

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BrainTwister #29: Four by four

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Tom Gauld on an accidental lab order

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Twisteddoodles on the two types of conference speakers

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Do academics really split hairs at work? They certainly do now!

Feedback is amazed that researchers have split a single hair from end to end. They think it will help predict who will get split ends from colouring hair and similar treatments

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Letters

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The last word