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Chand Bawri with intricate symmetries is a mathematical wonder and a visual delight (Credit: Marc Guitard/Getty Images)

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Israel has vaccinated more than half of 12 to 15-year-olds against Covid-19 – and even some younger children who are at special risk (Credit: Reuters)

Should young kids get the Covid-19 jab?

By Josie Glausiusz

A young Inuit boy jumping over a crack on an ice floe, Nanavut (Credit: Alamy)

The Inuit knowledge that's at risk

By Chris Baraniuk

Would our sense of our own humanity be diminished or enhanced if our now extinct hominin cousins were still around? (Credit: MaxiPhoto/Getty Images)

Life's Big Questions

What if other human species still lived

By Nicholas R Longrich

Tiger sharks have far-reaching impacts on their ecosystems, and can help fight climate change by protecting their habitats (Credit: Getty Images)

The unexpected benefits of tiger sharks

By Allison Hirschlag

A close up of a huntsman spider's hairy face (Credit: Alamy)

The reasons we casually kill spiders

By Zaria Gorvett

Covid-19

An Israeli health worker preparing to administer a booster shot (Credit: Getty Images)

Do we really need third vaccine doses?

By Zaria Gorvett

Fax machines became an essential business tool during the 1970s to the 1990s before they were replaced by email (Credit: Alamy)

How Covid-19 could end the fax

By Ashifa Kassam

Queue of people and vaccine (Credit: Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images)

Immune Response

Why some people don't want a vaccine

By David Robson

Chlorine dioxide in jar (Credit: Getty Images)

The 'Covid cure' taking root online

By Jose Luis Penarredonda

Family Tree

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How a simple tummy-rub can change babies' lives

Biology

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Alzheimer's: The heretical and hopeful role of infection

Space

3

The people who claim to hear the Northern Lights

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