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All about the price tag • Astronomical fees for new CRISPR therapies will stop them reaching those in need

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Uruguay faces severe drought

Listening to the hum of the universe • Astronomers have found signs that suggest huge gravitational waves create a background rumble across the universe, discovers Alex Wilkins

How our brain works to overcome negative emotions

US set to nearly halve emissions by 2035, but that isn’t enough

The past appears to run slower • Cosmological time dilation means the early universe’s events seem five times slower to us

Humans exploit one-third of all vertebrate species

Ape family tree hints human ancestors weren’t that violent

Genetic marker found for severity of multiple sclerosis

A 40,000-year-old rope-making kit • Stone tools found in caves in the Philippines seem to have been used for processing plant fibres

Atlantic cod may be five species rather than one

Iceman’s health claims assessed • Wim Hof’s claims that breathing and cold exposure have widespread benefits lack evidence

Female frogs croak to tell horny males to cool off

Muscle fibres warp as we get older, but we can restore them

Are these the remains of an interstellar meteor?

The myth that men hunt while women forage is wrong

IceCube detector finds neutrinos from the Milky Way

Soya beans get a portion of pork • Moolec’s transgenic “Piggy Sooy” beans are a quarter pig protein rather than plant protein

Vibration neurons in clitoris and penis play key role in sex

Baby bugs eat adults’ poo for a bacterial boost

Planet the size of Uranus could be hiding in our solar system

Opioids don’t help short-term back pain

Transforming robot rolls, crawls and flies

Orangutan talents include beatboxing vocal skills

Really brief

The next small step • The dawn of a new age of space exploration is thrilling. But there is a gap in our preparation for space flight, warns Elisa Raffaella Ferrè

Lost in Space-Time • Proving it Proofs, the central tenet of mathematics, occasionally have errors in them. Might computers be able to prevent this from happening, asks Emily Riehl

Heavens above

When viruses cure • Replacing antibiotics that no longer work costs money and time. A gripping book makes the case for revisiting an alternative, says Michael Marshall

Return of the superego • Could the ideas of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud help us understand the internet, asks a new book. Simon Ings explores

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The TV column • A beautiful life Marnie is like any 13-year-old – except she has a severe form of muscular dystrophy. A four-part drama, Best Interests, is an empathetic and nuanced story about terrible choices, says Bethan Ackerley

Your letters

Reality reconstructed • It’s time to ditch the idea that everything is always made of smaller stuff – and instead think of the universe as a single, quantum whole, says physicist Heinrich Päs

The emotional lives of animals • We are finally figuring out how to discern the emotions of farm and zoo animals – and how we can make them happier, says Sam Wong

Cut, paste, cure • The world’s first gene-editing CRISPR treatment is...