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Could do better • Reasons for concern, and optimism, ahead of the next crucial climate summit

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More floods in Australia • Continued extreme rain has flooded towns across eastern Australia and there might not be a let-up until 2023, reports Alice Klein

Plan to save Greenland glacier • Engineering firms are contemplating an ambitious project that aims to slow ice melt and hold back catastrophic sea level rise, reports Rowan Hooper

Quantum watch is ‘a completely new way of measuring time’

High school student sequences genome of his pet angelfish

Turmeric supplements have been linked to liver damage in five people

Hypnotherapy app eases IBS symptoms in just six weeks

Dozens of turtle species use vocal sounds to communicate

California mountain lions took more risks after huge wildfire

Weather sensors that float forever • A device that uses sunlight to levitate could stay in the stratosphere indefinitely

Cannabis users experience more pain after surgery

Space telescope glimpses the smallest distant galaxy

Pillars of Creation look even starrier in new JWST image

Analysis Energy • Can geothermal energy heat the UK? Underground heat could end the country’s reliance on gas, say MPs, but exploiting this potential isn’t straightforward, says Madeleine Cuff

Why mosquitoes bite some people more than others

Dyslexia linked to genetic variants • A genetic test could one day assess whether a child is predisposed to have dyslexia

Radiation-resistant alloy could boost spacecraft shielding

AIs built by Meta beat human experts at Diplomacy game

Weedkiller impairs visual learning in bumblebees

Proton’s stretchiness remains a puzzle for particle scientists

Robotic laser can target and kill cockroaches

Gases from asteroid are studied on Earth

Gut bacterium eases liver disease in mice

Physical neural net could make aircraft wings that morph

Really brief

Seeing red • We have projected our hopes and fears onto Mars through the ages. Even today, the Red Planet still spells adventure, says Stuart Clark

Field notes from space-time • Cosmic challenges The extraordinary James Webb Space Telescope, named after a man whose legacy I deplore, represents the contradictions of my job, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Record breaker

Editor’s pick

Out of the inferno • The wildfires that cut swathes across Europe this year resonate in a taut, realistic story of a father and son fleeing a local blaze, says Katie Smith-Wong

The safari just outside your office

Clear and present emissions • While the US military appears to take climate change seriously, it is a major polluter. James Dinneen explores an exposé of the pentagon’s bad habits

Don’t miss

The film column • Staying in An architect who never leaves her desirable, if lonely, flat notices a clock running backwards and other oddities in her slick world. Remote explores the deep feeling under the surface of teched-up, consumerist lives, says Simon Ings

Last shot • We have had years of missed opportunities to hit our climate goals, and with a fossil fuel gold rush triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the situation looks bleak. But ahead of COP27, there are still positives to reach...