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Amazon's future hinges on vote

OpenAI agent hacked a government site

Why meningitis outbreak was so rapid

El Niño heat could kill half a million people by February

Should children with obesity be treated with GLP-1 drugs? In the US, 8-year-olds are being given off-label weight-loss drugs, but we still don't know the long-term health effects, reports Alice Klein

Is AI really getting out of control?

Dogs pay more attention to consonants when we speak

Anthropic's discovery will, at best, be just another gene-editing tool

Orangutans vary in how they learn

The next space race has begun – but who will win? SpaceX seems to be way ahead of the competition with its reusable rocket, but China is now testing its own. Can it close the gap, asks Matthew Sparkes

Lifestyle changes may ease depression as much as therapy

Quantum light breaks Newtonian law

Food from thin air As climate change and population rise put the squeeze on food resources, Michael Le Page examines how turning electricity directly into food could help save the planet

Waste land

A complicated legacy

The long and short of it

A wild ride through physics

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Glitches in gravity

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