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A measured rebel • Controversial ideas in science shouldn’t always be dismissed

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Cuts to US ocean programme will hurt AMOC monitoring

‘Cold blob’ may weaken key current • A patch of ocean near Greenland that is bucking the world’s warming trend could be a sign that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is slowing down, reports Alec Luhn

Parenthood might make you love your partner less

The genetics behind endometriosis • Endometriosis is thought of as a gynaecological condition, but we now know it has links with cholesterol levels, inflammation and cell movement, finds Helen Thomson

A chromosome from a frozen rat has been resurrected inside mice

On the edge of burnout • Volunteers that maintain the open-source software the modern world relies on are struggling with the growing burden of fixing AI-written code, reports Matthew Sparkes

Are we getting to the point where it’s safe to gene-edit babies? • A team in the US has reported using an improved form of CRISPR to gene-edit human embryos, but a major issue remains unsolved, discovers Michael Le Page

An error-correction milestone • An atom-based quantum computer can correct its own errors during long computations, an important prerequisite for becoming truly useful, reports Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Ditch the niceties in AI prompts to save energy use

Mysterious triple symmetry could influence Earth’s climate

The looming El Niño could be bad – but worse is to come • Global warming will amplify the impacts of El Niño events, and could also make them much stronger, finds Michael Le Page

Stonehenge’s altar stone probably wasn’t transported by a glacier

Pancreatic cancer drug doubles survival time

Ötzi’s microbiome may be active • We have identified bacteria that lived in the gut of Ötzi, a 5300-year-old mummy, as well as cold-tolerant fungi that colonised his body after death, finds Chris Simms

Mysterious metal may have helped bring us oxygen

How to tell if memory slowdown is ‘normal’ • Memory lapses are common, but can also be signs of dementia. Daniel Cossins learns how to separate typical brain ageing from cognitive decline

Does turmeric have any actual health benefits? • The spice is heralded for its anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory properties, but Alice Klein finds that the evidence for this is shaky

The meme that has been amusing mathematicians for a century • The Collatz conjecture is addictive, deceptively simple and could eventually be solved by AI. Jacob Aron explores the puzzle’s origins

Desert waters

Three more great reads about the evolution of life

The dinosaurs among us • Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte turns his attention to the evolution of birds in an excellent and sometimes startling account, finds Michael Marshall

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Breaking anorexia’s control • One-third of people with anorexia don’t recover, but pinning down what’s happening in the brain is bringing new treatments, discovers Grace Wade

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