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Quantum thoughts • Ambitious attempts to explain consciousness should be given a fair chance

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Analysis Cloning • Does the birth of a cloned monkey mean we could now clone people? A healthy rhesus monkey has been born after being cloned from fetal cells, but creating a clone of an adult human being would be much harder, finds Michael Le Page

Siberia’s mysterious craters may have been carved out by hot gas explosions

The first unhackable shopping payments on quantum internet

Islands on Titan may be icebergs • Ephemeral “magic” features in the moon’s seas may be made of odd clumps of snow

AI comes up with battery design that uses less lithium

A breath ‘fingerprint’ could be used to unlock your phone

Pregnancy makes brain regions shrink, but most regrow again

Amazon hides ancient megalopolis • Researchers reveal that a mysterious civilisation built a network of cities and roads in the rainforest between 3000 and 1500 years ago, and then vanished, finds Michael Le Page

Covid-19 variant JN.1 may be the mildest form of the virus yet

Molecules vital for life could survive in Venus’s acid clouds

US hydropower generation set to fall as climate gets drier

The sun could contain a tiny black hole that formed in the big bang

Rocket engine burns itself up for fuel • A prototype rocket uses its own fuselage as propellant to avoid carrying dead weight

Some corals change sex each year to boost mating odds

Water pipes farmed for electricity • Passing drinking water through mini-turbines can provide huge amounts of renewable energy

NASA unveils X-59 plane to test quiet supersonic flight

Weibo fails to curb abuse by showing users’ locations

California frog reintroduction is a rare win against deadly fungus

Multiple sclerosis as a protector? • The same genes that cause multiple sclerosis may have prevented nomadic herders from catching infections from their animals, finds Clare Wilson

Origin of weird radio burst found

Fossilised skin is oldest known

Numbats are overheating as Australia gets warmer

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A dying shame • Twenty years after we developed a cervical cancer vaccine, the disease is still killing. Politics and economics got in the way, says Linda Eckert

No planet B • Would you like that in cod skin? A project in Iceland is setting out to use every part of caught fish, including repurposing waste fish skin to make leather and skin grafts, finds Graham Lawton

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Inside the real multiverse • There is a lot to learn about the physics of multiverses from a great new guide. Take note, makers of science-fiction blockbusters, says Bethan Ackerley

A wakeful wonderland • Nighttime can offer a world of creativity and connection with nature – especially for women, finds Catherine de Lange

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