This week's magazine

Table of contents

Leaders

Health

Long covid reveals the harm of one-size-fits-all medical treatment

While exercise and diet are frequently recommended as a universal way to improve your health, some conditions require more careful treatment

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News

Physics

Diamonds are surprisingly elastic when you make them tiny

Experiment with nanodiamonds reveals that they are less rigid than other diamonds, adding to our understanding of how they could be used in new technologies

News

Health

A whole new way to prevent death from sepsis shows promise

News

Space

Titan’s strange plains may be explained by unusual weather

News

Environment

98 per cent of meat and dairy sustainability pledges are greenwashing

News

Health

If a bird flu pandemic starts, we may have an mRNA vaccine ready

News

Technology

Table tennis-playing robot on track to becoming world champion

News

Technology

Do you need to worry about Mythos, Anthropic's computer-hacking AI?

News

Physics

QBox theory may offer glimpse of reality deeper than quantum realm

News

Life

Largest-ever octopus was great white shark of invertebrate predators

News

Health

Huge study reveals how Epstein-Barr virus may cause multiple sclerosis

News

Health

Catching a cold can delay cancer from spreading to the lungs

News

Physics

Gravity's strength measured more reliably than ever before

News

Mind

Symptoms of early dementia reversed by bespoke treatment plans

News

Space

10,000 new planets found hidden in NASA telescope data

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Earth

Giant Arctic continent launched dinosaurs to world domination

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Analysis

Health

Exercise advice for long covid may be doing more harm than good

Exercise has been touted as a tool for managing and treating long covid, but much of the evidence has neglected one of its most debilitating symptoms: post-exertional malaise

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Aperture

Health

Thought-provoking photographs capture what it feels like to have ADHD

These unusual images were created by visual artist Daniel Regan by submerging Polaroid photographs in his ADHD medication, to represent his experiences with the condition through art

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Features

Life

Why dinosaurs lived much more complex lives than we thought

A wave of dinosaur discoveries over the past decade has completely reshaped our understanding of these long-extinct animals. Palaeontologist Dave Hone spills the secrets of how dinosaurs lived, from how social they were to how much they really fought 

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Physics

Is consciousness more fundamental to reality than quantum physics?

Features

Health

Why the keto diet could be a revolutionary way to treat mental illness

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Culture

Comment

New Scientist recommends New York's Bone Museum and Gecko Gallery

The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week

Culture

Mind

What to read this week: The 21st Century Brain by Hannah Critchlow

Culture

Space

Ann Leckie continues to shine with new sci-fi novel Radiant Star

Culture

Comment

Our verdict on Red Mars: Mostly great, with a few quibbles

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More

Space

The rise, the fall and the rebound of cyclic cosmology

Cyclic cosmology, or the big bounce, is the idea that the universe will eventually crunch back together and then go through another big bang. Columnist Leah Crane finds that, appropriately, it’s coming back

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Health

Is stem cell therapy about to transform medicine and reverse ageing?

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Tom Gauld on dealing with a fire in the lab

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Twisteddoodles tidies up after an experiment

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Titan's strange plains may be explained by unusual weather

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Comment

Is an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg – or any boss – a good plan?

Feedback has learned that, according to reports, Meta is building an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff. Feedback hopes this doesn't become a trend

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Letters

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The last word