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Investing in the future • How far would $1 trillion go towards improving public health or the climate?

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Vaccine data ‘spectacular’ • The first real-world covid-19 vaccine studies are showing impressive results, report Graham Lawton and Adam Vaughan

Sights set on universal vaccine • Scientists have begun the race to create a single vaccine that protects us from all future coronaviruses, with human trials starting soon, finds Graham Lawton

Children with long covid • Almost half of children who contract covid-19 may have lasting symptoms, which should factor into decisions on reopening schools, reports Helen Thomson

US Army laser weapon to be most powerful ever

Smart system can dramatically cut wait to charge electric car

First video on Mars • The Perseverance rover is already giving us a stunning view of the Red Planet

Green energy solution in them thar hills

Deepest land microbes ever found • Intact cells discovered near the bottom of a 5-kilometre hole in China

Australian rock painting is at least 17,000 years old

Neutrino blasted out by a star-munching black hole

Juno spacecraft spies meteor lighting up Jupiter’s skies

The great white hunt • On the trail of icy ocean invaders We travelled to the Southern Ocean to investigate one of the world’s largest icebergs, says expedition leader Povl Abrahamsen

Knifefish use electric fields to develop complex social hierarchy

First million-yearold DNA comes from Siberian mammoths

Frogs may struggle to make the leap to a warmer world

Spider is a master of many webs

Unwrapping secrets of the sun’s layers

Really brief

Shaping someone’s dream as it happens

Soil deals with massive amount of human waste

Robo muscles that are more like ours

Mental slander • We too often turn to insulting people’s brain power – and that closes off our ability to understand others, argues Melanie Challenger

Views Columnist #FactsMatter • The truth about MSG Monosodium glutamate is eaten without problems in many countries, yet in the West there is a strange cultural aversion to it. James Wong investigates what’s going on

Editor’s pick

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Effects of a time-warping drug • Starring Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan, Synchronic is a thrilling film about a strange drug that sends you back in time, says Bethan Ackerley

Cloning makes perfect • A darkly funny sci-fi story explores how an “improved” version of yourself affects your relationships, says Robyn Chowdhury

Don’t miss

The film column • Of dirt and virtue Space Sweepers is a silly but lovable space opera that punches above its weight to deliver sharp moral truths. It brilliantly conjures the stark, soul-grinding realities of life spent cleaning junk from space, says Simon Ings

Metabolism myths • To discover the truth about diet and exercise, we need to look at our evolutionary past, says anthropologist Herman Pontzer

A trillion dollars to fix the world • Let’s imagine you have inherited a fortune and want to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. What is the best way to make a difference, asks Rowan Hooper

The first urbanites • Proto-cities in eastern Europe challenge our ideas about the origins of...