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Your data, your control • Only by taking data back into our own hands can we fix the web

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Joining crabs on their commute

Solving the mystery of fibromyalgia • Fibromyalgia, which causes chronic pain, is poorly understood, but two studies have shed new light on its causes, explains Michael Marshall

We may finally know the reason why birds break into song at dawn

Cloud microbes’ colours could help us spot alien life

‘Weaponised’ CAR T-cell therapy shows promise against solid tumours

Liquid veins on Mars are potential home for microbes

Defying quantum gravity • A new calculation has found that gravity could produce quantum entanglement, even if it isn’t fully quantum itself, finds Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Eye implant and high-tech glasses help restore lost vision

Safer battery can be pierced without catching fire

Testing relativity in the quantum realm • Rotating ultracold atoms in an “optical Ferris wheel” could help us reveal the limits of relativity

Wegovy helps the heart even with minimal weight loss

A leap forward for e-paper displays

A bright future for solar power • Solar electricity is growing rapidly and the planet could be powered on sunshine much sooner than you think, reports Madeleine Cuff

The rate of solar panel installations keeps rising each year • Global solar capacity additions, cumulative by year in gigawatts

Renewables produced more electricity than coal for the first time on record in the first half of 2025 • Global electricity generation, Jan-Jun of each year in terawatt-hours

Is this how breastfeeding fights cancer? • Rise in immune cells may explain why we see a lower incidence of breast cancer after breastfeeding

Why coffee beans extracted from civet poo are so delicious

Gene editing protects pigs from deadly virus

Hand-powered device disinfects drinking water

How antidepressants affect the body • These drugs have a range of physical side effects – knowing which could help inform prescriptions

Teenager builds advanced robot hand from Lego

Climate compromises • COP’s negotiations will focus on money for climate change adaptation, but some tough choices lie ahead, warns Susannah Fisher

Field notes from space-time • Looking backwards The US’s decision to stop supporting a telescope that would have given us unprecedented insight into the early universe is devastating, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Cat’s eye view

Finding a path through • Can sea slugs form abstract thoughts? Do we dare to see any “purpose” in evolution? Thomas Lewton explores a bold, provocative book

Escaping enshittification • A powerful book shows how algorithmic capitalism ends up ruining good services. What can we do, asks Matthew Sparkes

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The film column • True colours Super Nature is the ultimate home movie: a documentary stitching together local nature footage shot by pros and enthusiasts worldwide, using only the cheap 1960s film format Super 8. The result is ravishing, says Simon Ings

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No space, no time, no particles • Take quantum theory seriously and a surprising, beautiful new vision of reality opens up to us, says physicist Vlatko Vedral

Ancient plagues • A surge in contagious diseases in Europe 5000...