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A portrait of Mark Thomson - a middle-aged man in glasses, smiling - with a background collage. The collage contains particle sprays, the LHC, and road signs from the CERN campus

Physics

CERN’s new chief on the gamble that could fix our picture of reality

An employees poses next to an installation by US artist John Baldessari entitled 'Beethoven's Trumpet (With Ear)' at the Saatchi Gallery in central London on May 26, 2011. Forming part of 'The Shape of Things To Come: New Sculpture' exhibition, it is to be displayed from May 27-16 October 2011. AFP PHOTO/ CARL COURT (Photo credit should read CARL COURT/AFP via Getty Images)

Health

Hearing loss is bad for the whole body – but new treatments are coming

Mathematics

A golden age of maths is dawning and mathematicians are freaking out

Leaders

Technology

Superintelligent machines may well need us after all

Despite AI's dizzying improvements in mathematical ability, its successes show just how integral human mathematicians are to the scientific process

News

Environment

Geoengineering can thicken Arctic sea ice, but for how long?

Two companies are aiming to preserve Arctic ice by pumping water onto the sheet and letting it freeze, but only one of the trials found that this delayed melting in the summer

Health

Huge study of Alzheimer’s genetics identifies new drug targets

Life

Biofluorescence seen in colourful fire salamanders for the first time

Environment

Glaciers in the ‘roof of the world’ have suddenly started melting

Health

Pancreatic cancer halted by virus injection in three patients

Mathematics

Mathematical AI helps researchers crack 50-year-old problem

Life

Mirror life: Scientists clash over threat of lab-engineered bacteria

Health

3D-printed lymph nodes could widen access to CAR T-cell therapy

Space

NASA plans a base on the moon spanning hundreds of square kilometres

Mind

We’re becoming more individualistic and it’s affecting our love lives

Space

Millions of planets might form around supermassive black holes

Environment

Wealthy people with environmental ideals are the biggest emitters

Physics

Photons behave very strangely if you try to cut them

Environment

Attack on Iran’s oil released as much pollution as a volcano

Humans

Earliest use of anaesthetics uncovered in Chinese doctor’s tomb

Physics

First quantum grandfather clock could probe where gravity comes from

Space

Space storms could switch train signals and cause serious accidents

Physics

We may finally know why gold stays so shiny

Aperture

Mathematics

Explore the mind-bending and paradoxical art of M C. Escher

A new retrospective of the artist beloved by mathematicians opens this week. Get up close to the art with our interactive story

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Features

Mathematics

A golden age of maths is dawning and mathematicians are freaking out

Mathematicians are stunned at the progress AI is making in solving advanced problems, leaving some questioning whether there will still be room for humans

Health

Hearing loss is bad for the whole body – but new treatments are coming

Physics

CERN’s new chief on the gamble that could fix our picture of reality

Culture

CXP17N Giant Anatomical Man model outside the Tate Modern London promoting Damient Hurst

Health

91av recommends a deep dive into our organs by Giulia Enders

Giulia Enders made her name with Gut, an exploration of our intestines. Now, in the compelling follow-up Organ Speak, she’s listening to what our other organs are telling us

Culture

Comment

Everyone is Lying to You for Money is a must-watch exposé of crypto

Culture

Humans

Alice Roberts: ‘We are fundamentally, at the end of the day, animals’

Culture

Health

Will lab-grown sperm let infertile men have children of their own?

Men who do not produce sperm can’t be helped by existing fertility treatments, but a start-up is now claiming it can grow their sperm in the lab. Columnist Michael Le Page suspects this technique will have to be combined with gene editing if it is to help many men

Mind

Why your brain needs plenty of “Aha!” moments