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When to stop? • Why the healthcare industry isn’t built for coming off medication

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Most direct sign of dark matter yet • Dark matter’s secrets could be unlocked by a peculiar gamma-ray signal in three galaxy clusters – or it may reveal a more exotic phenomenon, finds Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Deadly emerging tick viruses are spreading in the US

Supercentenarians have hypervigilant immune systems

We’ve underestimated global warming • Official projections for how much the world will warm are already catastrophic – and now it appears the world may warm by 25 per cent more than they suggest, finds Michael Le Page

Melted ice from Greenland is intensifying European heatwaves

How close are cancer vaccines? • A personalised mRNA cancer vaccine has produced positive results in a final-stage trial involving skin cancer, raising hopes for the approach, discovers Michael Le Page

We may now know which neurons dictate when it is time to go to sleep

Why AI watermarks won’t work • AI companies have begun watermarking their models’ outputs to improve transparency and tackle misinformation – but the approach has limitations, reports Matthew Sparkes

Did humans really evolve to be active only in the day?

Newly discovered immune hubs may keep our brain healthy

Cookies made from plastic bottles could reduce waste

Female clones of a male mouse • A gene-editing tool can reliably turn male mouse embryos into healthy females – a feat that could be valuable for conservation, finds Chris Simms

Trial to avoid contrails set to take off • Air traffic controllers will use AI-generated forecasts to advise planes flying over the Atlantic to adjust their altitude in an effort to reduce the climate impact of contrails, reports Madeleine Cuff

AI could help design more efficient plane wings

A 30-year mystery over lost neutrinos may have been solved

Older women reap major benefits from lifting heavy weights

Suggesting that ADHD is a myth is pseudoscientific and dangerous • ADHD is a real condition. An ill-informed documentary that suggests it is a modern, social construct could cause harm, says Caroline Williams

Our upper limit • How long could we possibly live? A recent study has it verging on two centuries – but Graham Lawton finds reason to be sceptical

The Void Ages • When we put our art into AI models, we risk losing our cultural history to auto-generated works. We must save human writing to avoid creating this void, says Annalee Newitz

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Travelling through time • If you want to know more or less everything there is to know about time, then this excellent – and extremely meaty – book is for you, says Joshua Howgego

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Is the banana about to split? • We love bananas, but without serious technical efforts, the crop faces collapse worldwide. James Woodford enjoys a passionate plea

A grim future • We had a mixed response to The Dogs Stars, a post-apocalyptic novel that will soon hit our cinema screens, says Alison Flood

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Poking holes in reality • Irrational numbers have long underpinned quantum mechanics. Removing them could eliminate its weirdest features, discovers Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

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