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Listen up • Advances in women’s healthcare will be swifter if we heed their experiences

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Striking sea slug is on the move

Is hydrogen a climate problem? • The first long-term record of atmospheric hydrogen reveals the historical rise in concentration levels – and could sway debates over its use as a fuel, finds Madeleine Cuff

The oldest human mummies were slowly smoke-dried

When women start HRT may affect their risk of Alzheimer’s

The moon may be more hospitable to terrestrial life than we thought

Where fat is stored could influence its effect on the brain

Quantum supremacy is here at last • For the first time, a quantum computer has unambiguously outperformed a classical one

One test tracks ageing across the body • The rate that our heart or liver ages may differ from that of our immune or hormonal systems, and now it seems that a simple blood test could break that down, finds Christa Lesté-Lasserre

Vitamin D supplements may lower your level of another type of vitamin D

Total tree loss would bring extreme weather to Amazon

Fears over unusual asteroid explosion

Needle-free vaccines aren’t too big a stretch

Stealth radio could upend warfare • Deeply hidden signals might give drone operators an edge on the battlefield

Amber find holds insects from era of the dinosaurs

Tipsy chimps enjoy the equivalent of two glasses of wine per day

Long covid may be making your periods longer and heavier

AI doesn’t have all the answers • Around one-third of AI search tool responses make unsupported claims

Mars once had a thicker atmosphere than Earth

Inflammation may be the price of longevity

Making atoms self-magnify reveals their quantum wave functions

‘Flashy’ skull belonged to an early dome-headed dino

Time for a new you? • We sort ourselves into introverts and extroverts, but the truth is that personality is more malleable than you think, says Claudia Canavan

Future Chronicles • Biopower blooms By the 2030s, it was possible to make living solar panels. They were a global sensation, fuelling the growth of YIMBYism, or “yes in my back yard”. Rowan Hooper explores

Inner journey

An emotional crisis • In their new books, Kate Marvel and Tim Lenton tackle the difficult feelings climate change can arouse. They tell Madeleine Cuff and Rowan Hooper how to harness them

With a whimper • Forget violence and volcanic eruptions – a deeply personal book has a radical take on how the Neanderthals died out, finds Alison George

Your letters

Untangling endometriosis • A link between endometriosis and autoimmune diseases could open up new treatments for this poorly understood condition, reports Lauren Clark

Easier diagnosis

Beyond light speed • Bizarre optical illusions could help us solve a raft of cosmic mysteries, discovers Jonathan O’Callaghan

The truth about narcissists • The discovery that there seem to be two types of narcissism could help people spot the narcissists in their lives, finds David Robson

Do I really belong? • Feeling you don’t fit in is agonising, wherever you find yourself in life. David Robson shares some helpful science

Puzzles

Almost the last word

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