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Can we fix it? • We can exceed 1.5°C of warming and come back down, but the overshoot years will hurt

El Niño has increased sea levels • Sea levels in parts of the eastern Pacific are already an “astounding” 40 centimetres above normal, raising the risk of coastal flooding, discovers Michael Le Page

Future ice loss may be locked in • Even if oceans cool, Antarctica's "doomsday" glacier will continue to melt, although a neighbouring glacier might begin to grow, discovers Alison George

Giant bacteria could be living in your gut

Twins' cancer spread in utero • The rare case also sheds light on how identical twins develop from one fertilised egg

How ancient peoples lived alongside art • A unique rock art site is teaching us that art wasn’t something found only at remote sacred places.

Dark matter detection • We have arguably already discovered dark matter, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, but to observe it, we need to figure out if we expect it to act like a particle or a wave

A sniffle-free season • Can a positive mindset protect us from the worst of winter’s colds? David Robson sifts through the evidence to find how looking after your mind can affect your immune system

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Counting on maths • Terence Tao, one of the world’s great mathematicians, urges us to find empowerment in numbers in his new book.

The Time Traveler’s creator • For fans, it has been a long wait for the sequel to Audrey Niffenegger’s bestseller.

Minds of their own • Do animals have inner lives? Definitely, argued the late primatologist Frans de Waal. His final book is a terrific mix of memoir and science, finds Michael Marshall

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The riddle of the neutrino • Despite years of searching, we still don’t know the mass of the neutrino.

What now for the 'extreme male brain' idea of autism? • Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen's influential research helped pin autism as a particularly male condition. As studies increasingly broaden our view of autism, Thomas Lewton asks him whether his perspective has changed

Who first lived in the Americas? • For decades, the Monte Verde site in Chile has been the source of arguments about the first peoples in the Americas.

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