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The leader • When is an experimental surgery too experimental?
First-ever spinal cord transplant
Personalised cancer vaccine expected to be approved next year
Cholesterol linked to Alzheimer's • The glymphatic system flushes toxins out of the brain, but this seems to be disrupted in Alzheimer’s disease, and cholesterol may be involved, discovers Michael Marshall
'Solar flares' created in the lab may explain corona mystery
Falling sea levels due to El Niño will hit mangroves and corals
Edging closer to usefulness • The record for how reliable the qubits used to store information in quantum computers can be has been broken, finds Karmela Padavic-Callaghan
Latest clue to autoimmunity • Women are more at risk of autoimmune conditions, which may be related to repeated fluctuations in body temperature during the menstrual cycle, reports Carissa Wong
Blow-by-blow account of the years after the dinosaur-ending asteroid
News • A dispute over when to publish crucial climate change assessments risks letting countries off the hook on emissions cuts, finds Madeleine Cuff
Off-kilter body clocks implicated in depression
1000 mathematicians sign pledge to shun AI in their work
News
Views Columnist • What does the nose know? My lovely dad died of Alzheimer’s last year. Since then, I’ve been digging into the disease and I was astonished to discover that it may start in the nose, says Hannah Fry
Views Columnists
Views Columnist • The roots of AI fear in the West Popular conceptions of AI differ between the US and China. Annalee Newitz dives into the cultural factors driving our impressions of its power
Our busy skies
Small but mighty • An ecologist argues for the importance of microbes in fighting climate change in a convincing and hopeful book, says Christa Lesté-Lasserre
Blue Planet scores – again • David Attenborough has another game-changing hit in Blue Planet III, finds Michael Le Page – prepare for incredible camerawork and astonishing animals
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Features Cover story • The discovery that our brains can generate new neurons surprisingly late in life is prompting a rethink of adult brain health, finds Jamie Ducharme
Meeting eye to eye • A close encounter with a fruit fly set Rowan Hooper on a mission to seek out signs of an emotional inner life across the animal kingdom – and find out how they give us new perspectives on consciousness
"I don't take it very literally that I live in a hologram" • Is the universe we experience a projection of a simpler, lower-dimensional reality? Physicist Sabrina Pasterski tells Miriam Frankel about her mind-bending idea that could finally unify gravity and quantum theory
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