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(Very) cool idea • Human hibernation may sound fanciful, but it could already be saving lives

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Extreme weather threat • Global energy systems are at risk from climate change, but many countries aren’t taking this seriously, reports Madeleine Cuff

Monkeypox threat could worsen • A more deadly variant of the virus is circulating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and there are fears it could go global, reports Jason Arunn Murugesu

Analysis Energy • Can Britain avoid winter blackouts? Households in England, Scotland and Wales could be required to ration their energy use at peak times to keep the lights on, reports Madeleine Cuff

2022 is already Sydney’s wettest year on record

Nine nuggets from our big show • The world’s greatest festival of science entertained and educated us – it also revealed some rather surprising facts, finds Matthew Sparkes

Analysis Armed robots • The stand against robots with guns Robot-makers have pledged to push back on attempts to add weapons to their creations. Will it make a difference, asks Matthew Sparkes

Climate change forces monkeys out of the trees

Adverts in space are now economically viable but potentially dangerous

Intensive farming could preserve remaining Amazon

AI trick speeds up multiplication • A new way to perform “matrix multiplication”, discovered by a DeepMind artificial intelligence, could boost a range of computing tasks, reports Matthew Sparkes

Taking lava’s temperature on Jupiter’s moon Io

Smoking and body mass linked to 226 conditions

Drought could be the new normal • South-western North America has been in drought for more than two decades, and with the influence of climate change, this could become permanent, finds James Dinneen

Dementia risk for rugby players • Health records reveal a higher incidence of neurological conditions in men who played rugby union at international level, reports Jason Arunn Murugesu

Analysis Ecology • What is killing crustaceans on the UK coast? Pollution seems to be the most likely culprit behind the deaths in north-east England, reports Jason Arunn Murugesu

Musical game could boost your memory

How molecules essential to life arose

Our prenatal growth sped up after split from chimps

Really brief

There’s no app for that • Brain training apps claim to make us smarter, but there is no evidence for this – and they just aren’t much fun to play, says Adrian Hon

This changes everything • Robot visions The success of text-to-image AIs raises major ethical issues, from the data sets they are trained on to the lack of compensation for artists, says Annalee Newitz

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Editor’s pick

Grappling with long covid • This deep dive into what we know about long covid is welcome – but leans a little too heavily on anecdotal information, finds Claire Ainsworth

Translating the mind • A neuroscientist explores different interpretations of consciousness in this engaging, if a little repetitive, book, says Jonathan R. Goodman

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The games column • Breaking it down Hardspace: Shipbreaker lets you work as a salvager stripping spacecraft for parts in low Earth orbit. Essentially, it is like building a Lego set in reverse, and, like Lego, it is a very satisfying experience,...