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Nuclear fallout • The biggest threat to Chernobyl is no longer radiation

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Proton puzzle finally solved • Two extremely precise experiments have agreed with a previously shocking measurement of just how big the proton actually is, reports Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Particles seen emerging from vacuum for the first time

More signs that key ocean current is slowing around the Atlantic

Chimpanzee clash hints at evolutionary roots of war

Artemis II is a historic success • A triumphant end to NASA’s lunar flyby is just the beginning of a longer road to humans once again being able to set foot on the moon, discovers Leah Crane

Drug shows promise for Parkinson’s • Treatments that target the glymphatic system, which removes problematic proteins from the brain, could be the key to treating Parkinson’s disease, finds Carissa Wong

Boosting brain’s cleaning system could also treat migraines

We could soon settle the biggest controversy in maths

Did small prey lead to big brains? • The shift towards using lighter stone tools to hunt smaller prey may have driven the evolution of large brains in modern humans, discovers James Urquhart

Quantum batteries could be charged by reversing time

Quantum entanglement measured in a solid for the first time

Emperor penguins are now endangered

CAR T-cell therapy treats trio of diseases

Hidden fossils reveal ocean secrets • Plankton buried in a small chunk of rock may tell us more about a major mass extinction event

Sniffing out the reason why felines can be fussy eaters

Are manure digesters a real solution to dairy farm emissions? • Converting manure to biogas reduces methane emissions from livestock, but the process can also have some negative side effects, finds Alec Luhn

Iodised salt might be uncool, but many of us need more iodine • Iodine deficiency can lead to drops in IQ – and the modern fancy salt fad may be causing a resurgence, says Alice Klein

The man who ruined mathematics • The incompleteness theorem is accepted as part of the mathematical canon today, but it was a bombshell when Kurt Gödel first introduced it, says Jacob Aron.

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Two more great books on astronomy

To boldly listen… • An imaginative and compelling book reveals how radio waves help us tune in to our universe – and even search for alien civilisations, says Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

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Hunting elusive elephants • A film about the quest for “ghost elephants” is as much about not knowing and asking the right questions as about exploration, finds Davide Abbatescianni

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Chernobyl: 40 years on • How has Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affected the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster? On an exclusive visit, Matthew Sparkes found out

Our visit to Chernobyl • Matthew Sparkes visited various sites in the Chernobyl region of Ukraine, including the destroyed reactor, a former cooling pond and several locations in the city of Chernobyl. The region and its nuclear exclusion zone were occupied in 2022 when Russia invaded from Belarus in a bid to reach Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv

The most dangerous job in the world • Ever since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, scientists have needed to monitor radioactivity levels inside the damaged reactor. That job currently...