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India’s crisis deepens • The unfolding tragedy should be a warning against covid-19 complacency
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India at breaking point • A lack of oxygen supplies for covid-19 patients is a national crisis as India hits record case numbers, reports Puja Changoiwala
Children’s immunity at risk • Young children who have spent much of their lives under coronavirus restrictions now seem more vulnerable to a number of other conditions, finds Donna Lu
Asthma and allergies
We’ll soon be able to tell whether you are immune to covid-19
Plants routinely swap DNA • Genes can transfer between grasses without any need for inheritance
Earth’s continents may have formed far earlier than thought
Nations’ climate goals take shape • China and the US are the world’s top two greenhouse gas emitters. Do they have what it takes to cut levels fast enough to slow global warming, asks Adam Vaughan
Male parasitic wasps sense mates in a host
The original euro: Lumps of bronze were currency 2800 years ago
AI can read a cow’s face to tell if it is stressed or excited
China to make a home in space • The Chinese Space Station could have geopolitical ramifications
Antistars may be lurking close by • Gamma rays offer hints that some stars may be made of antimatter
Glancing at your phone prompts others to do it too
UK coroner calls for air pollution action
The strange, elongated shape of hailstones
Stars spotted hurling vast bursts of matter into space
Oxygen made using Martian atmosphere
AI solves a riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Really brief
Sustainable living is impossible for many
Robot voices its thoughts to show how it makes decisions
Jane Austen quote stored in molecules
Red alert • There are plans to bring rocks from Mars to Earth to check them for signs of life. We really shouldn’t be doing this, says Paul Marks
Mathematical woes caused by muons • The standard model of particle physics explains a lot, but we are still confused about how to use it to calculate things, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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The carbon solution • A new exhibition demonstrates just how important carbon-sucking technology will be in tackling the climate crisis, says Adam Vaughan
Not-so-unexplored depths • The deep sea has a reputation for being mysterious, but we are now learning so much about it, finds Sandrine Ceurstemont
Don’t miss
Greta Thunberg’s year off • A three-part BBC series follows the teenage climate change activist as she takes a break from school to learn from the world’s top environmental scientists and economists, finds Karina Shah
Taming big tech • The recent conflict between Facebook and Australia is just one skirmish in a new battle to control the web, finds Chris Stokel-Walker
Who watches the watchers?
The wisdom of the woods • When Suzanne Simard discovered the wood wide web, people were sceptical. Now she has found that trees are caring, sentient and wise, she tells Rowan Hooper
The Mother Tree Project
Making malaria history • The battle to eradicate this killer disease is entering a crucial phase. Will it succeed? Jacob Kushner reports from Kenya. Photographs by Lena Mucha
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