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MIS-STEAK? Is synthetic meat the future? pg58 Plus: • What are the strangest courtship rituals? • Why aren’t virtual humans totally realistic? • Could we clone a mammoth or a dinosaur? • How do we know if a rock is from space? Are cities bad for our mental health?
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An Immune System for the Planet
Can we build a global pathogen defence system – a planetary equivalent of the immune system – to protect us when the next pandemic arrives?
STIMULATION AND SIGNALLING
Using magnets to influence the brain could lead to revolutionary new depression treatment. The method, tested in rats, targets star-shaped brain cells called astrocytes. Neuroscientists Dr Yichao Yu and Prof Mark Lythgoe at University College London tell us more…
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION: WHY IS IT BEING RETIRED AND WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO IT?
The last decade of the ageing space station’s life will feature private occupants, movies and an eventual watery grave
THE PERILS OF FOLKLORE
Seemingly innocuous folk cures and old wives’ tales can have a darker side
THE EXPLAINER: TORNADOES
All about tornadoes
YOU, ME AND OUR MICROBES
Why you are more like your partner than you might think
ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE?
The search for alien life is ramping up. But what if, instead of searching for signs of biology, we looked for something more familiar: an extraterrestrial civilisation?
THE FIBONACCI SEQUENCE
A mathematical phenomenon seen in everything from fruit to music
A MOST VIOLENT YEAR
The volcanoes of 2021 blew our minds at a time when much of the world was reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic
NEW DADS: DO THEY GET POSTNATAL DEPRESSION?
Nearly one in four new fathers suffers from anxiety and depression in the first year following their children’s birth. Should we be doing more to help them?