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It’s a question of timing • Pinning down dates can completely upend our understanding of events

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Glow of Etna’s latest lava flow

Frozen brain tissue brought back to life • Mouse brain tissue has survived being frozen for a week, in a step towards suspended animation of people, finds Michael Le Page

Surprising fossils suggest early animals could survive out of water

Torrential rain didn’t replenish California’s deep groundwater

The coming drone wars • Future conflicts are likely to involve the kind of drone deployment currently being seen in Ukraine, so how are the world’s militaries preparing, asks David Hambling

Megalodon sharks may have fought with their jaws

Analysis Conservation • Is rewilding actually bad for global biodiversity? Conservation projects in wealthy but nature-depleted countries can cause food and timber production to “leak” into poorer, wildlife-abundant nations, finds Madeleine Cuff

Microbe dyes could make clothes greener

Pompeii’s streets show switch to Roman rule

Most Europeans probably had dark skin until 3000 years ago

Modified cells could help prevent clogged arteries

Earth’s core pulled out of shape • Seismic waves suggest the change happened in the past few decades

Feathered dinosaur may be the earliest known bird

Tiny galaxy may host huge black hole • Supermassive object seems to sit at centre of the Large Magellanic Cloud, firing stars our way

Ozempic-like drugs may help with alcohol addiction

Exoplanet may be the most volcanic world ever seen

Firms’ plans for net-zero oil extraction labelled as ‘PR spiel’

Why we crave dessert even when we are full

People are starting to trust AI more

We’re closing in on the neutrino’s size • It is tricky to work out how big a neutrino is, but now we are starting to narrow down its true value

Moth uses optical illusion to disguise itself as a leaf

No comparison • Humans learn very differently to machines, thanks to our biased, malleable memory – and that’s a good thing, says Charan Ranganath

Lost in space-time • Look at the stars How does astronomy fit into astrophysics – and does it matter? We need to think more carefully about how we categorise the universe, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Going deeper

What will survive of us? • Millions of years after humans vanish, fossil clues showing how we lived and dominated the planet may confuse future civilisations, finds Chris Simms

Waking up as me • A terrifying but fascinating book shows how our identities hang by slender neurological threads, finds Grace Wade

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The film column • Straw robots Companion is a horror-comedy that sets out to deconstruct men’s objectification of women. It also asks good questions about why we want robots in the first place, but sadly there is a logical hole at its centre, says Simon Ings

Your letters

WHEN? • Exploring seven of the biggest chronological conundrums of all time

Social ills • Is your online life triggering symptoms of real-life sickness? David Robson looks at how to avoid falling foul of the placebo effect’s evil twin, the nocebo effect

Taking it outside • Numerous studies show that exercising outdoors has a slight edge on...