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Climate pessimism • Negative thinking is unpopular, but it could drive more realistic efforts to limit harm

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Puffins arrive for breeding season

Carbon clean-up • Before we can store carbon, we must capture it. These are the main technologies for doing so.

Key carbon plan is unworkable • Climate models assume we can slow global warming by storing carbon dioxide underground, but the numbers don’t add up, finds Madeleine Cuff

Arctic permafrost is now a net emitter of major greenhouse gases

Progression of Parkinson’s disease slowed by antibody drug

Cyborg cockroach swarm is controlled by computers

Are pandas bad at sex because they have the wrong gut microbes?

Surprisingly huge black hole found in our galaxy

A crystal made only of electrons • Exotic material has now been seen under a microscope in unprecedented detail

Deadly upwellings of cold water pose threat to marine life

Bottle purifies water using your body’s static electricity

Lab-grown mini-tumours could revolutionise cancer therapy

‘Peaceful’ bonobos may be more aggressive than chimps

Post-op infection is often due to skin-dwelling microbes

The enigma that was Peter Higgs • The physicist revolutionised our understanding of the universe by theorising the Higgs boson, yet tried to avoid the call from the Nobel prize committee, says Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Bacterium moves into an alga • A once-independent bacterium has evolved into an organelle that provides nitrogen to marine algal cells, an event so rare that there are only three other known cases, says Michael Le Page

Chatbots can persuade conspiracy theorists to change their minds

People in Australia made pottery over 2000 years ago

Treating your gum disease may prevent irregular heartbeat

Planets that look alike might be a sign of spacefaring aliens

A better way to use bionic hands?

Fractal seen at the molecular scale

Endangered white rhino could be saved by frozen skin

Really brief

The other energy crisis • One in five adults worldwide is living with fatigue. We need to change the way we think about exhaustion, says Amy Arthur

Our human story • Welcome to the team Five years ago, our extended human family got a bit bigger with the announcement of a new species of hominin. What have we learned since, asks Michael Marshall

Ghost ships

The hypochondria challenge • Millions of people experience symptoms many doctors dismiss as imaginary, but why? A moving first-person account is very revealing, finds Elle Hunt

Everything but the truth • Can you see through deceiving data and beguiling stories? Take the card test and find out, says Chris Stokel-Walker

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The TV column • A jaunty trip to the apocalypse Amid a deluge of dour shows about the end of the world, Fallout, based on the hit video games of the same name and set in the wastelands of 2296, stands out for being a lot of fun, says Bethan Ackerley

Your letters

Sound of silence • A new understanding of hearing could not only fix tinnitus, but reverse some types of deafness too, discovers Clare Wilson

How we hear

Prevention is better than a cure

Mind the gap • We appear to live in a patch of...