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Children are still at risk • Easing of England’s covid-19 lockdown puts unvaccinated children in the firing line

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Cases will spike in August • The UK faces a large wave of covid-19 cases and deaths in the weeks after lockdown lifts in England, reports Adam Vaughan

Is it time to vaccinate children? • With covid-19 cases surging and restrictions loosening in the UK, is it time for the country to start vaccinating children? Clare Wilson investigates the pros and cons

Earth needs more nature reserves to avert extinctions

Europeans may have worn make-up in the Stone Age

Flying to the edge of space • Richard Branson launched on his Virgin Galactic craft

Climate change made heatwave more likely

Mystery Venus gas may be volcanic • Phosphine in planet’s clouds was a potential sign of life, but it may come from eruptions

Fish brains grow or shrink depending on how much they think

New kind of ice can curl and uncurl without breaking

AI programmer may be reusing code without asking

‘Risky’ fix planned for ageing Hubble • The space telescope malfunctioned unexpectedly last month, but a solution may be possible

YouTube promotes videos that violate its own rules

Built-in discrimination • Routine diagnostic tests use race to determine the need for treatment, despite a lack of evidence to support this. Layal Liverpool reports

False beliefs and racial biases

Distant space cloud is firing supercharged photons at us

Fabric actively helps to keep wearer cool

Fish getting hooked on remains of drugs

Really brief

Mystery of giant planet’s rays solved

Zoonotic viruses found in the wild animal trade

Female vampire bats like to care and share

A genetic gambit • We’re not taking evolution into account properly in our pandemic strategy – here’s why we must change tack, says Jonathan Goodman

#FactsMatter • The mysterious case of declining nutrition I’ve debunked the claim that food is getting less nutritious before, but when a new study turned up, I had to investigate further, writes James Wong

Fantastic fungi

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Profiting from nature • The big-money, murky world of wildlife crime is the subject of a new podcast series. Gege Li listens in

Spaced out • Teenagers on a voyage to save humanity learn that they are being drugged. Gregory Wakeman finds out what happens next

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The film column • Fighting for our future in the future After being recruited by soldiers from 30 years in the future, a former US army officer has to take on an alien invasion. The real message in The Tomorrow War doesn’t lie far below the surface, says Simon Ings

Stretching the point • How flexible do you actually need to be, asks Caroline Williams

What happens when you stretch?

Stretch then exercise?

Frogs in trouble • Amphibians are suffering their own global outbreak of a terrible disease. Can we turn the tide on it? Krista Charles investigates

Animal outbreaks • Amphibians aren’t the only animals battling a panzootic disease – one that has spread around the world

“We have a chance to no longer be subject to the whims of the cosmos” • To become an interplanetary species, we may have to alter our DNA, says...