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6 July 2024

Issue 3498

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Geneva, Switzerland

Health

The benefits of anti-ageing medicines will outweigh the downsides

News
New anti-ageing vaccines promise to prevent diseases like Alzheimer's

Health

New anti-ageing vaccines promise to prevent diseases like Alzheimer's

Features
The Tropical jungle with river and sun beam and foggy in the garden

Humans

How ghost cities in the Amazon are rewriting the story of civilisation

Features
The hacker turned politician using digital tech to reimagine democracy

Technology

The hacker turned politician using digital tech to reimagine democracy

Features

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Leaders

Geneva, Switzerland

Health

The benefits of anti-ageing medicines will outweigh the downsides

We shouldn't fear life-extending medical advances based on unintended consequences. If we can make lives longer and healthier, potential problems are a price worth paying

News

News

A chess board with a chess game being played

Technology

AI can identify the most brilliant and entertaining chess moves

An AI that can tell which chess moves are awe-inspiring is being used to make a chess computer that would play creatively, possibly making it more enjoyable to watch or compete against

News

Health

Precision ultrasound could treat deep parts of brain without surgery

News

Health

Dangerous mpox strain spreading in Democratic Republic of the Congo

News

Technology

$1m prize for AI that can solve puzzles that are simple for humans

News

Humans

Mysterious rock art in Venezuela hints at little-known ancient culture

News

Space

‘Little red dot’ galaxies are breaking theories of cosmic evolution

News

Physics

Physicists determined the paper most likely to give you a paper cut

News

Health

Should weight loss drugs be used to treat obesity in children?

News

Life

Winter ‘sauna’ helps endangered frogs fight off fungal disease

News

Humans

Neanderthal child may have had Down’s syndrome

News

Life

The last woolly mammoths on Earth died from bad luck, not inbreeding

News

Life

Trilobites preserved in incredible detail by Pompeii-style eruption

News

Humans

Skeletons reveal ancient Egyptian scribes had bad posture at work

News

Earth

Record amount of water from 2022 Tonga eruption is still in atmosphere

News

Environment

Solar boom has replaced farmland that could feed millions of people

News

Space

Time ticks faster on the moon by 57 microseconds per Earth day

News

Technology

AI can predict how monkeys play Pac-Man

News

Space

Moss that survives deep freeze and radiation could live on Mars

News

Health

Baby-led weaning makes little nutritional difference vs spoon-feeding

News

Life

Ants amputate their nestmates’ limbs to save them from infection

News

Analysis

Physics

Is the world's biggest fusion experiment dead after new delay to 2035?

ITER, a €20 billion nuclear fusion reactor under construction in France, will now not switch on until 2035 - a delay of 10 years. With smaller commercial fusion efforts on the rise, is it worth continuing with this gargantuan project?

News

Mind

New Quiet Place movie adds to irrational fears over marauding aliens

News

Environment

Cool solutions could head off the climate-damaging rush for air con

Comment

Aperture

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Humans

Haunting photos bring fictional female explorers to life

Tonje Bøe Birkeland's photographs imagine the exploits of fictional female scientists and adventurers from the past

Regulars

Features

The Tropical jungle with river and sun beam and foggy in the garden

Humans

How ghost cities in the Amazon are rewriting the story of civilisation

Remote sensing, including lidar, reveals that the Amazon was once home to millions of people. The emerging picture of how they lived challenges ideas of human cultural evolution

Features

Technology

The hacker turned politician using digital tech to reimagine democracy

Features

Health

New anti-ageing vaccines promise to prevent diseases like Alzheimer's

Features

Culture

A man is lying in a hammock in the sun, he is reading a book on his digital tablet. The hammock is hanging in a beautiful green forest in Sweden.

Comment

The best science non-fiction books of 2024 so far

Want to save our seas? Make exotic cocktails? Ponder life's meaning? Whatever your plans this July, Simon Ings rounds up the year's best non-fiction so far

Culture

Technology

The best science fiction books of 2024 so far

Culture

More

People hands taking slices of chocolate pie, above view on a green background. Unequal sharing the cake, concept for financial pie chart

Mathematics

How mathematics can help you divide anything up fairly

Whether you are sharing a cake or a coastline, maths can help make sure everyone is happy with their cut, says Katie Steckles

Regulars

BrainTwister #27: Dancing decimals

Regulars

Tom Gauld on the Three Neolithic Little Pigs

Regulars

Twisteddoodles on the latest in tanning innovation

Regulars

Regulars

Hot news: abandoned bird's nest 'still there', reports professor

Hot news: abandoned bird's nest 'still there', reports professor

Feedback, as ever bringing you the most up-to-date news from the floors of the National Roman Museum, can reveal that an abandoned nest has not been removed from the mouth of a statue, according to a visitor

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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