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39 Lab-grown meat Forget fake steaks and impossible burgers – the

first cultured animal products are likely to be seafood

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5 News

“ The SARS outbreak felt

exactly this hopeless in the

middle of it. This feels like

a replay of the same movie”

On the

cover

5 Coronavirus latest

The race to model, track

and trace covid-

9 Red-dwarf dynamo

Electric exoplanet creates

an interstellar stir

44 Some don’t like it hot

How climate change is

skewing sex ratios

Vol 245 No 3270

Cover image: Nathalie Lees

34 Cool minds

Secrets of the people who

never get stressed

39 Lab-grown meat

It’s finally here - but will it

really save the planet?

10 NASA’s weird moon missions 18 What counts as human?

16 Upside-down jellyfish 51 Perfect pancakes 12 Mega-turtles

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8 Fossil eukaryotes

Are these the oldest complex

cells ever discovered?

10 Psychological tests

US courts are still using

controversial and subjective

assessments

13 Long-range recognition

The plan to be able to spot

you from 1 kilometre away

23 Comment

The coronavirus outbreak can

be modelled with maths, says

Adam Kucharski

24 The columnist

James Wong on what eating

like our ancestors entails

26 Letters

Do we live in a simulation?

28 Aperture

The wild island that looks like

a colourful biological jewel

30 Culture

A chemical giant gets hunted

in the movie Dark Waters

51 Science of cooking

Better batter for pancake day

52 Puzzles

A cryptic crossword, plus the

quick quiz and puzzle

53 Feedback

A case of nominative

contradeterminism

54 Almost the last word

Mulberry juice stains and cold

fingers: readers respond

56 The Q&A

Elisabeth Bik, science sleuth,

on research and cheating

34 Cool minds

Understanding the resilience of

people who don’t get stressed

could transform our lives

39 Lab-grown meat

The surprising taste of a

long-awaited food revolution

44 Some don’t like it hot

When the sex of your offspring

is tuned to temperature, a

warming world looks risky

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