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Of mice and men • It is time to address the question of babies with two genetic fathers

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The dawn of a new era

A brief history of same-sex genetic parents*

First fertile mice with two fathers • We are a step closer to two men being able to have genetic children of their own after the creation of fertile mice by putting two sperm cells in an empty egg, says Michael Le Page

Stellar flares hamper search for life in promising star system

Putting a face to the Denisovans • A skull from China has been identified as Denisovan – and confirms our suspicions about just how massive these ancient humans were, finds Michael Marshall

Bespoke immunotherapy could be made in the body of people with cancer

We may know how your brain tracks sleep debt

Is this the secret to our big brains? • Unlike other primates, humans are exposed to high levels of placental sex hormones in utero, which may have shaped our evolutionary brain development, finds Grace Wade

Ice bubbles can be used to store information

Dead NASA satellite suddenly reanimates

Moths can travel by the light of the stars

More evidence rapamycin may boost lifespan

World faces huge crop shortages • No matter what farmers do, climate change will affect five of the world’s six main staple crops

Sea spiders use their bodies to ‘farm’ gas-eating bacteria

Talking big ideas on a tiny island • A hundred years after Werner Heisenberg supposedly invented quantum mechanics on Helgoland, physicists have returned for a centenary celebration. Philip Ball joined them

Asteroid impact on the moon could damage Earth’s satellites

Can reusable rockets help cool the planet?

Cold sore virus reshapes the human genome

Lost memories can still influence you • Searching for forgotten memories could tell us more about how the brain works

Ancient ‘goblin-like’ monstersaur slurped up dinosaur eggs

Thawing attitudes • The public is tuning out the seemingly slow warming of the world, but it doesn’t have to be that way, argue Grace Liu and Rachit Dubey

This changes everything • Will the real robots please stand up? It is uncanny how human fears about robots mirror those about immigrants. But maybe they won’t rise up Terminator-style at all, says Annalee Newitz

A stark divide

Narrative medicine • A neurologist sensitively explores the marvels of our brains in a spellbinding debut that is being compared to the late, great Oliver Sacks, says Elle Hunt

Behind the scenes • Natural history museums teach us about our world, but they aren’t telling us the whole story, discovers Chris Stokel Walker

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Mind games • This exhilarating, experimental thriller is packed with puzzles and narrative threads, finds Jacob Aron, who had an awful lot of fun piecing it all together

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It all adds up • This handy maths trick can help you count moving objects, from vanishing spoons to a herd of cows, says Katie Steckles

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