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Ozempic for everyone? • If semaglutide drugs can reverse ageing, let’s consider testing them in healthy people

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Volcano awakens after six centuries

Passing on quantum effects

Quantum world gets weirder • Particles of light travelling through a maze of devices seem to have passed a famous test for entanglement – without being entangled at all, says Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Brain ageing may be due to a breakdown in protein factories

Eye-like cameras let us peer closer at stars

Ozempic really could turn back the clock on your biological age

Critics of de-extinction targeted • Some researchers who have been critical of Colossal Biosciences’s plans to revive extinct animals say they have been targeted by online articles trying to discredit them, finds Matthew Sparkes

Sweeteners may blunt cancer therapy • Sucralose could alter the gut microbiome in a way that impairs the immune system

Forests with robust animal populations store more carbon

What really killed Napoleon’s army in 1812?

Ancient pots contain 2500-year-old honey

Human milk could help fight bacteria that harm pregnancies

Super-tough hexagonal diamond made in the lab

E. coli genome has been remade • Rewriting the bacterium’s genetic code from scratch could make it more useful commercially

Longest lightning ‘mega-flash’ sets a shocking new record

Flu might awaken dormant cancer • Malignant cells increased 100-fold in the lungs of mice that had been infected with swine flu

Creatures found in hostile deep-sea environment

Peeling back the potato’s origin story

Meltwater bursts through Greenland ice in first-of-its-kind eruption

Whopper of a stick insect weighs as much as a golf ball

Strict routine slows cognitive decline • Lifestyle changes really do seem to help people at risk of dementia, particularly if they get regular, structured support from groups and trained facilitators, finds Chris Simms

Solar-powered ambush drones can wait for targets like land mines

Siberian ice mummy was covered in animal tattoos

Finding emotion in motion • Fear of illness hasn’t motivated us to exercise. Perhaps instead it is time to highlight the enjoyable aspects of movement, says Dawn Teh

Field notes from space-time • Losing energy When it comes to cosmology, answering one question only leads to more. Just take light: what happens to its energy when it redshifts, asks Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Funky fungi

Who’s really running things? • Exposing the unseen gender-based power dynamics and cognitive biases that shape our everyday lives is fascinating – and enraging, finds Helen Thomson

Finding your niche • Exploring how neurodivergent people fare working in the conservation sector is a fascinating read, says Richard Smyth

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The film column • Everything to say In David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds, Karsh, Myrna and Maury talk – a lot – about mysterious shrouds, improbable tech and ever-more-complex conspiracy theories. Nothing happens, just grief and, er, death, finds Simon Ings

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The end of infinity? • Extremely large numbers are holding back science, say some mathematicians – and they have a radical plan to do something about it, finds Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

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