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All in the mind • Embracing subjectivity in our experience of pain is the path to better treatments
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COP27 talks in disarray • Negotiations on key issues are at an impasse as the UN summit enters its second week, reports Madeleine Cuff in Sharm El Sheikh
Analysis Climate finance • Why ‘loss and damage’ payments are now on the agenda Advances in attribution science have made the argument for climate reparations impossible to ignore, says Madeleine Cuff
Crucial Congo forest under threat • The area of forest felled in the Congo basin rose last year, but schemes giving power to Indigenous communities could be key to reversing the trend
Risk of pandemic terrorism • Geneticist Kevin Esvelt says the technology to create a dangerous virus and trigger a pandemic is in a growing number of hands, reports Michael Le Page
Quantum experiment flips time • A photon can be made to appear to run forwards and backwards in time, which could have implications for quantum computing, says Alex Wilkins
US midterm voters had climate change on their minds
Herds of pig-like peccaries vanish and reappear years later
Your perfect movie • Artificial intelligences that turn text into video are making rapid progress, but are we ready for what comes next, asks Alex Wilkins
Row over fingerprint scanners • A new form of surveillance for people subject to deportation orders in the UK has attracted criticism from privacy campaigners, reports Jason Arunn Murugesu
Probiotic coated in nanoparticles may ease bowel disease
Ants have evolved to farm plants on at least 15 separate occasions
Knee ligament injuries can heal without surgery
Gene drive could wipe out mice • Parasitic DNA that spreads through a population and makes females infertile has been shown to work in a mammal for the first time, reports Michael Le Page
AIs are better at answering questions if you get another AI to ask them
Zapping neurons helps people with paralysis to walk
Particles pop up out of empty space in a miniature cosmos
Artificial sleep helps AI learn new task
Testosterone linked with kidney injury
Oldest legible sentence using first alphabet found
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Bringing maths to life • Relating the subject to questions of politics and social justice can help address its image problem, argues Eugenia Cheng
Wild Wild Life • Eternal sunshine Some bird species fly vast distances to enjoy an almost unlimited summer. We are still learning about how they evolved and how they know where to go, finds Penny Sarchet
Infernal energy
Your letters
Kaleidoscope world • Telluria is a satirical fantasy set in the fragments of a neo-Russian empire, where everyone craves a psychotropic drug, finds Boyd Tonkin
Thor actor’s amazing life hacks
The life spiritual • A meticulous and respectful guide to one of our most intimate areas of life makes for a fascinating read, finds Grace Wade
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The sci-fi column • The strangers we become Nathan Tavares puts a new twist on the multiverse trope in A Fractured Infinity, a coming-of-age novel that reminds us all of the horror of being young, says Sally Adee
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