12 Organ transplants Stem cells prevent rejection of donor tissue
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On the
cover
6 Sailing in space
Solar sail passes first
major test in orbit
14 Paternal prenatal prep
Men need to plan for
pregnancy too
38 Number hunters
Race for the first
billion-digit prime
Coming
next week
Chiller bees
The remarkable mellowing
of Puerto Rico’s killer bees
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Views
Features
7 Replaced by robots
How our new colleagues
will affect us psychologically
13 Gaia’s future
We have taken control of
the planet. What now?
14 Flights of fancy
Birds may have sexually
attractive dinosaurs to
thank for their feathers
23 Comment
Fertility clinics must stop
unproven add-on treatments,
says Clare Wilson
24 The columnist
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
on red dwarf exoplanets
26 Letters
Embed data ethics into health
DNA projects
28 Aperture
Releasing gorillas into Gabon
30 Culture
The call of the moon at a
new London exhibition
51 Maker
Create a garden intruder alert
52 Puzzles
Cryptic crossword, a clever code
and the quick quiz
53 Feedback
Brexit’s moonshot and worm
readers: the week in weird
54 Almost the last word
Hidden in plain sight: readers
explain the phenomenon
56 The Q&A
Anca Dragan on how to get
robots working with humans
34 Rays of hope
Revolutionary new forms of
solar power will help us fight
climate change
38 Number hunters
Inside the hunt for the world’s
biggest prime numbers
42 The hidden cause
of disease
One microbe could be behind
a range of conditions
The back pages
18 Carbon capture It’ll take more than trees to get us to net zero
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42 Does this one microbe
cause all these conditions
...and does that mean we
can beat them?
34 Rays of hope
How solar power will
overtake fossils
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8 Supergravity 12 Hairy bee tongues 7 Liquid pipes 24 Icy exoplanets
14 How sex led to feathers 15 Hyper-fast star
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