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Barrier to change • Outdated research on therapies for menopause symptoms is letting us down
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Deadly floods in Pakistan • Eight weeks of heavy monsoon rains have left a third of the country underwater and more than 1000 dead, reports Adam Vaughan
Synthetic mouse embryos with rudimentary brain grown in the lab
Anti-laser can make any object suck in light
Mucus has evolved at least 15 times in mammals
Conservative party’s online vote is vulnerable to hackers • Hacking concerns have dogged the Tory leadership contest in the UK. Should it ever have used online voting, asks Matthew Sparkes
Exoplanet CO2 spotted for first time • The distant world WASP-39b may have formed similarly to planets in our solar system
The complex rules of wrinkling have been worked out
Mutation-inducing drugs could raise virus dangers
Ageing can play havoc with face-recognition systems
Underwater data centre set for Pacific
Bacteria seep out from cracks in the sea floor
Best evidence yet that the mysterious ‘chameleon’ force doesn’t exist
Short ads could guard against fake news on YouTube
How fungi’s weird shapes evolved • Two distinct bursts of increasing complexity led to the many forms fungus species take
Psychedelic therapy helps some people quit alcohol
Squishy computer calculates based on how you squash it
Two-legged dinosaur is the oldest ever found in Africa
Rapid eye movements during sleep reveal where mice look in dreams
Plasmas could help make the world’s most powerful laser
Fossils hint at origins of bipedalism • An analysis of thigh and forearm bones suggests that early ancestors of humans began walking on two legs much earlier than we supposed, reports Clare Wilson
See the gas giant glow • The James Webb Space Telescope has taken an incredible image of Jupiter
AI-created lenses let camera ignore objects
3D-printed wood twists into shape
Battery charges in under a minute
Malaria vaccine using live parasites shows promise
Really brief
A lab the size of a planet • Studying the atmospheres of Venus and Mars can help us understand the human role in climate change on Earth, says David Grinspoon
Field notes from space-time • Welcome to my TED talk Giving a TED talk wasn’t easy, but I wanted to make sure my audience came away with a better understanding of dark matter, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
The living dead
Editor’s pick
When plants play detective • From a marijuana database to the possible poisoning of the Buddha, this book tells the story of plants’ complex role in crime, says Kate Douglas
A future for climate refugees? • Helping those displaced by a warming world means rethinking human identity, argues a bold new book. James McConnachie explores
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The film column • Taking direction Five people in recovery from psychosis guide artist Marcus Coates as he recreates aspects of their experience in this series of disorienting and sometimes very frightening short films, finds Simon Ings
Taming the menopause • Hormone replacement therapy has garnered a bad reputation, but it might be time to rethink our relationship with the drugs – and the menopause itself. Caroline Williams...