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Out of options • If we want to preserve the remaining ice at our poles, we must take drastic action now

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First images from a new eye in the sky

Plan to refreeze sea ice shows promise • Pumping seawater onto the snow on top of Arctic sea ice can make the ice thicker, a trial has revealed, offering a possible way to preserve sea ice during the summer, reports Madeleine Cuff

A black hole’s jets are so huge they are hundreds of times bigger than our galaxy

Tiny nuclear battery could work for decades

New way to split seawater and make hydrogen fuel

The most effective drugs for treating migraines revealed

Teleporting energy from empty space • Quantum computing protocol lets you extract energy from empty space, teleport it and store it for later

‘Doomsday’ glacier is headed for a calamitous collapse

Light takes an impossible journey • Photons seem able to appear on the other side of an obstacle before they have even gone in

Wuhan market the most likely source of covid-19 outbreak

Bacteria on the ISS are evolving for life in orbit

‘Shazam for whales’ uses AI to ID marine mammals

Earth once had a ring like Saturn’s, hint crater sites

An AI can beat internet CAPTCHA tests every time

The death toll of antibiotic resistance • About 39 million people are predicted to die as a result of this problem between now and 2050

Giant rats trained to sniff out illegal wildlife trafficking

A quantum multiverse may be feasible • Simulations suggest our reality could be one of the many worlds in a quantum multiverse

Rebreathing air helps lizards stay underwater longer

People hugely underestimate the carbon footprints of the 1 per cent

How to turn exhaled astronaut breath into fresh oxygen

Loneliness doesn’t seem to cause as many health conditions as we thought

AI detects ancient aqueducts in cold war satellite images

Long-stemmed flowers evolved to be ‘seen’ by bats

Dark matter may have let giant black holes form in early universe

Don’t fear the numbers • Anxiety about maths has been around for at least a century. It boils down to a misunderstanding about what maths is, says Sarah Hart

No planet B • Eating green There has been plenty of controversy over genetically modified crops, but if deployed well they could benefit the environment, says Graham Lawton

Stellar views

Playing with fire • There can be no victory in a war against nature, says the author of a mustread history of our environmental crisis. Michael Marshall explores

A future of our making? • What if tech bros and libertarians ruled the world, wonders Davide Abbatescianni as he explores a troubling docudrama

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The sci-fi column • Water world Colonialism, intense friendships, AI: Richard Powers’s Playground has many strands. But the novel is also a love letter to our oceans and a welcome, urgent wake-up call about destroying wild spaces and creatures, says Emily H. Wilson

Your letters

Microbes in mind • The surprising discovery that the human brain has its own microbiome offers the possibility of reversing dementia, finds David Robson

Uncommon sense • Generally seen as shared by all humanity, common sense is a lot more...