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The floodgates are open • The AI age has unleashed a torrent of text – dealing with it won’t be easy

The battle for mathematical truth • A key step for showing that claimed solutions for mathematical problems are correct could be at risk from hacking by artificial intelligence, reports Matthew Sparkes

Cut sugar to protect your microbiome • Antibiotics can reduce the diversity of microbes in your gut and lead to health problems, but changing what you eat can help, discovers Chris Simms

Anglo-Saxons held a privileged status in medieval Rome

Elephants imitate each other's rumbling calls

Most potent GLP-1 therapy yet • Combining drugs that target three different appetite-suppressing hormones had an “astonishing” effect on weight loss, finds Carissa Wong

First week may be key for allergy risk • The strength of immune response that newborns have could determine how their immune system develops, and the microbiome seems to play a role in this, finds Carissa Wong

Compressing bones releases molecules that ease traumatic brain injuries

Urban trees can't cope with the changing climate • In cities like London, trees are already struggling with hot and dry summers. Madeleine Cuff heads to Kew Gardens to hear about the impact

Rocket shortage is creating a crisis • SpaceX's changing priorities, the war in Ukraine and a lack of competitors has brought the future of rocket launches to a crunch point, reports Jonathan O'Callaghan

Bird-like dinosaur was unrelated to birds

Hack your productivity • Hack your productivity  An endless stream of distractions in our busy world can make focus slip away, so Helen Thomson went hunting for neuroscience-backed ways to boost your productivity

AI refuseniks • There is no question that AI has transformed mathematics in recent months. Jacob Aron wonders if it will soon be impossible to reject AI and continue working in the field

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The art of eating well • A refreshingly different take on how to think about food and nutrition has some real lessons to offer, finds Graham Lawton

On board the AI rollercoaster • Despite disagreeing over when (or if) AI will achieve human-level intelligence, Jacob Aron thoroughly recommends this primer to a fast-moving field

Save the cheerleader, save the world • Sci-fi show Heroes, about ordinary people with extraordinary genes, first aired 20 years ago. Its first season is almost perfect, a combination of compelling characters, imagery and music, says Bethan Ackerley

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How to clean your brain • Boosting the brain’s system for flushing out toxins could help protect your brain health – and possibly even prevent Alzheimer’s, discovers Michael Marshall

Written in the stars • A swarm of stars that hurtles around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way could be the key to understanding our galaxy,

"There is a gradient between definitely not extinct, definitely extinct and everything in between" • Finding that long-lost plants and animals are still alive often isn't an unmitigated cause for celebration, says evolutionary biologist Aelys Humphreys. She tells Penny Sarchet that to get to grips with the true scale of species loss, we need to completely change how we think about extinction

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