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We must avoid complacency • What is happening in India could occur elsewhere if rising case numbers are ignored
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India crisis: What happens next? • How bad will India’s covid-19 crisis get, what can be done to stop it and will it be mirrored elsewhere? Michael Le Page and Clare Wilson report
What is India’s ‘double mutant’?
Vaccine side effects • What side effects can you expect from the covid-19 vaccines and what do they mean? Clare Wilson reports
Lockdown inactivity in England proves long-lasting
The oldest burial in Africa • 3-year-old child from the Middle Stone Age found in a purposefully dug pit
Female black widow spider mates with and eats many males
Birthplace of the Anthropocene • Humanity has left a geological mark on Earth – now we need to decide where it begins
Your finger can feel the change of one atom in a material
Negative events before birth increase mental health risk
Billion-year-old microbe took steps towards internal organs
Car batteries could provide a new use for driftwood
Yeast species has strange form of sexual reproduction
Ancient Arabian monuments • The 1000 structures may have been used in rituals and predate Stonehenge
Frigid molecules act as a single quantum object
Battle of the billionaires • Elon Musk’s SpaceX has won a NASA contract to land humans on the moon. Do his rivals, including Jeff Bezos, have cause to complain, asks Leah Crane
A baby’s first stool reveals risk of allergies
‘Smart’ immune cells kill tumours and stop them regrowing in mice
Third UK lockdown didn’t cut as much air pollution as the first
Amazon exodus may have begun before colonisation
Distant mice adapted to cold in same way
Venus finally reveals some inner secrets
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Blast of sound could avert bird collisions
Welcome to the gang: tiny, toxic frog is a new species
Skin patch can tell when you scratch
Discrimination is still a problem in STEM • Harassment and discrimination based on gender, age and ethnicity continue to be major issues in the workplace that affect a significant proportion of STEM industry workers, according to the 2021 New Scientist Jobs/SRG survey. Gege Li reports
Life under ice • I lived under a glacier studying methane-producing microbes. We still have much to learn about their climate impact, says Jemma Wadham
Crimes against nature • There have long been calls for international laws to recognise ecocide as a crime. Now that movement may finally have a chance, writes Graham Lawton
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Making electronic waves • A group of pioneers made many electronic music breakthroughs but their work hasn’t always got the recognition it deserves, finds Bethan Ackerley
When worlds collide • A documentary tells the remarkable story of a chimp that lived like a human and a human that lived like a chimp, finds Elle Hunt
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