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Subatomic safari • Explore the quantum world with our grand tour of reality at its smallest scales

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A giant of the dinosaur era

Information can survive a black hole • A decades-old paradox uncovered by Stephen Hawking may be solved

Oxygen-sucking battery rids mice of breast cancer

Material impervious to radiation could be used in spaceships

A mental workout could help clear out your brain’s waste

A childhood like no other • Australia’s policy of detaining child asylum seekers, in some cases for years, has had long-lasting effects on their health, finds Alice Klein

Analysis UK carbon budget • The UK’s five big climate bets Reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 will require huge transformations across the whole of the country. Madeleine Cuff examines the government’s key plans

Microplastics may increase how much fat the body absorbs

Explosive can’t detonate unless filled with fluid

T. rex was lippy rather than toothy • Predatory dinosaurs had their terrifying teeth mostly hidden from view behind scaly lips

AI text detection is mathematically impossible

Proton’s size is a moveable feast • The radius of this subatomic particle seems to vary depending on how you look at it

Male mosquitoes may use humans as a hook-up spot

New way to predict river flood risk could help avoid disasters

Ukraine is building an AI to help triage shrapnel injuries

Start-up is developing world’s first ammonia-powered ships

Ultra-tough battery survives hammering and being run over

Nanosyringes inject drugs into cells • Structures made by bacteria could help us deliver treatments in a more targeted way

Ants farm fungus to create “cement” for sturdy nests

Humans may not yet have hit the biological limit of our lifespan

Biggest explosion ever keeps baffling astronomers

JWST spots earliest black hole ever seen

Delicate glass items made using origami

Cockroaches adapt mating strategy due to poison bait

Really brief

Stand up for Earth • Comedy could really make the message about the climate crisis hit home, says Bill McGuire (with help from Kiri Pritchard-McLean)

No planet B • A river runs through it The declaration of the Vjosa in Albania as Europe’s first Wild River National Park is a major win. Shame about the airport planned for the river’s delta, says Graham Lawton

Solar power

Your letters

Rooting out racism in health • A legacy of racism in Western medicine means healthcare is badly in need of decolonising. Layal Liverpool dissects a book that sets out why

Little marvels • We need insects more than they need us. An excellent guide to these tiny creatures reminds us why, says Richard Smyth

Don’t miss

The games column • A walk in the woods The Forest Cathedral is a video game adaptation of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, a book that helped create an environmental movement and transform the world. Can it live up to its pedigree? Jacob Aron explores

AN INVENTORY OF THE QUANTUM REALM • The ancient Greeks speculated that it might be air, fire or water. A century ago, physicists felt sure it was the atom. Today, we believe that the deepest layer of reality is populated by a diverse cast of elementary particles, all...