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The fossil fuel diet • Food that is healthy for you can still be catastrophic for the planet

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An out-of-this-world design

Bullying affects the brain for years • Enduring changes to the brain occur in people who are bullied and are different in males and females, finds Helen Thomson

De-extinction company claims it has a nearly complete thylacine genome

Tiny working motor made from parts of different bacteria

Harris vs Trump: The scientific stakes • The US presidential candidates differ widely on climate action and abortion access, but are more similar than they may seem on Big Tech regulation. New Scientist takes a look

Track record on science funding

Farming fish is worse for the environment than we thought

Writing backwards can trick an AI to reveal a bomb recipe

Folklore helps find ancient tsunami • An 8-metre wave seems to have hit Hawaii hundreds of years ago – as suggested by oral history

Invasive snake is surviving in Britain by living in attics

Pattern hides behind laws of nature • The symbols and mathematical operations used in key equations follow a mysterious law that could reveal something fundamental about the universe, finds Alex Wilkins

A cosmic alignment

Risk of peanut allergies on planes is overblown

Young puppies know to ask people for help

6G phone networks could be 9000 times faster than 5G

Warmer winters mean high plains may store less carbon

A mess of quantum disorder • Entropy equations produce different results in the quantum realm

Microplastics found in breath of dolphins

A new eye on the universe • First look at Euclid’s map of the cosmos reveals breathtaking glimpses of galaxies

Male mice flee to females when losing a fight

Strange brown dwarf is actually two separate stars

Trick could make computer calculations more accurate

Finding the spark • When award-winning author Will Eaves couldn’t write his next novel, he discovered creativity can be found in looking sideways at a goal

No planet B • Throwing shade Urban trees make a huge difference amid rising city temperatures, but we need to think a lot harder about what we are planting and where, says Graham Lawton

A sea of stars

Can AI rock your soul? • A moving exhibition explores what happens if AI is trained to write choral music by feeding it a specially created vocal dataset, finds Bethan Ackerley

Being Marie Curie • A rich biography shows how the pioneer of radioactivity used her lab to redefine the role of women in science, says Chen Ly

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Black holes, inside and out • Physicists say they have resolved an infamous black hole paradox – although that has only deepened the mystery of what really goes on within them, finds Leah Crane

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