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The wrong formula • Medical treatments don’t always work for everyone – we need more nuance

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Gravity’s strength has been measured more reliably than ever before

Back where they belong • A marsupial species hit by introduced predators is making a comeback

We’ve just found a record number of planets

Symptoms of early dementia can be reversed by bespoke treatment plans

A step beyond the quantum realm • We have long suspected there could be a layer of physical reality beneath quantum theory, and a new model unveils just how strange it might be, finds Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Catching a cold can delay cancer from spreading to the lungs

Do you need to worry about Mythos? • A powerful AI kept from public access because of its ability to hack computers with impunity is making headlines. But could it actually improve cybersecurity, asks Matthew Sparkes

Exercise is no quick fix for long covid • Physical activity has been touted as a tool for treating long covid, but much of the evidence neglects one of its most debilitating symptoms: post-exertional malaise, reports Alexandra Thompson

Largest-ever octopus was the great white shark of invertebrate predators

Greenwashing rife in meat and dairy industry

How Epstein-Barr may cause MS • We have long suspected that the Epstein-Barr virus might play a role in multiple sclerosis, and now the exact nature of that connection is becoming clearer, finds Michael Marshall

Giant Arctic continent led to rise of dinosaurs

Robot serves up a challenge to table tennis pros

mRNA vaccine for bird flu is coming • We may soon have a defence against a bird flu strain infecting animals – and some people

Saturn’s largest moon may have a snowy surface

We may have found a whole new way to prevent death from sepsis

Nanodiamonds are surprisingly squishable

Is stem cell therapy about to reverse ageing? • A clinical trial to restore vision in two age-related conditions could deliver on the promise of a discovery made 20 years ago, says Graham Lawton

The rise, the fall and the rebound of cyclic cosmology • The idea that the universe will one day crunch back together and go through another big bang is, appropriately, coming back, finds Leah Crane

Inner world

Three more great books on our amazing brains

Ready for the revolution? • Our brains need to adapt quickly to meet the challenges of our digital world, but a rigorous new book brings hope that we can do it, says Graham Lawton

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Strange world • Set on a planet whose population lives underground, Radiant Star is Ann Leckie’s latest Radch-universe novel. Its rich characterisation and meticulous world-building shine through, says our science-fiction columnist Emily H. Wilson

Martian living • Our book club members enjoyed a look at what colonising the Red Planet might be like in Red Mars, says Alison Flood

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Comfort food • The keto diet is more than just a faddish way to lose weight – it is also having transformative results tackling conditions from depression to anorexia, finds Caroline Williams

The essence of reality • Can everything that exists be reduced to quantum physics, or is conscious experience more fundamental, asks Karmela...