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Apple TV+ are on the rise - but so are their carbon emissions
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30 How the world got wired Our sleep-deprived times
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38 The hardest problem
in climate change
Our world is built on a dirty
secret. Here’s how to clean it up
42 The aliens among us
Why radically different life
forms really could be living
right here on Earth
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The real King Kong was a
cousin of today’s orangutans
12 Dead car batteries
How to prevent a mountain
of electric vehicle waste
16 Personal genomics
Should we sequence babies’
DNA? And can your genes help
you eat more healthily?
23 Comment
Beware the genetic sting,
says Erin Murphy
24 The columnist
Annalee Newitz on Facebook’s
threat to democracy
26 Letters
Some solutions to the
minimoon conundrum
28 Aperture
A giant baobab tree hollowed
out to store water
30 Culture
Disturbing show weighs
the impact of a 24/7 world
51 Stargazing at home
Watch a meteor shower
52 Puzzles
Quick crossword, a number
puzzle and the quiz
53 Feedback
Flower power and erratic
chromatics: the week in weird
54 Almost the last word
Why the freezer door is hard
to open: readers respond
56 The Q&A
Google scientist Dan Russell
on our search habits
34 Dark matter
The universe’s invisible stuff
may be far stranger than we
imagined, says Dan Hooper
38 The hardest problem
in climate change
Concrete and steel are an
opportunity for climate victory
42 The aliens among us
Could underground microbes
stretch the boundaries of life?
The back pages
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34 Dark matter
We still haven’t found it.
Our theories are
falling apart. Is it time to
rethink the universe?
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