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Bracing for El Niño

El Niño heralds a tumultuous year

A food crisis could be on its way

How to save the world from El Niño

OpenAI's shock dump

Fatty arteries present in young adults

Neanderthal Europe was as much a wooden age as a stone age

Light could turn tattoos on and off

Maths’ existential crisis AI solving long-standing problems should have been a glorious moment for mathematicians – but instead we’re having a huge collective wobble, says Hannah Fry

Sweet tooth

Going live

Nothing to lose?

Second thoughts The award-winning When There Are Wolves Again by E. J. Swift somehow delivers both a determined call for more wilderness globally – and a great novel. Sci-fi columnist Emily H. Wilson is thrilled she gave it another chance

Views Your letters

I think, therefore I am?

Cancer in the crosshairs

Features Interview

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