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A pivotal moment • The end of El Niño should be a spur for accelerated climate action

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As warm El Niño ends, what next? • After a year of driving extreme weather, the El Niño pattern in the Pacific Ocean is subsiding, but this year may not be any cooler, says James Dinneen

Just three years of high temperatures will mean we have missed 1.5°C goal

Ancient egg-laying mammals revealed • Trove of Australian fossils offers a rare glimpse of the ancient relatives of platypuses and echidnas that lived alongside the dinosaurs 100 million years ago, finds James Woodford

Tiny black holes could trace patterns inside the sun

Antiviral drug may offer treatment for hearing loss

AI can guess where landmines are most likely to be hiding

Hungry deer may have driven plants to become tinier

The quantum arrow of time • A new way to think about why time only flows in one direction has major implications for both the universe’s early period and its eventual demise, says Leah Crane

Analysis Mental health • Could anxiety or depression be ‘transmitted’ between classmates? Having one person in a school class with a mental health condition has been linked to a higher risk of such a diagnosis in their peers. But are these illnesses contagious, asks Clare Wilson

How early humans reached Australia • Excavations on the island of Timor hint at which route was used to first settle vast continent

Ants learn faster if they get a hit of caffeine

Sun’s dynamo may hide just beneath the roiling surface

Why the way bird flu spreads between cows is still a mystery

Cement without the emissions • A process that uses waste from demolished buildings could cut the climate impact of construction

Ancient viruses linked to mental health conditions

Soldiers test ancient armour to show it worked for war

Japan’s earthquake swarm may have been triggered by heavy snow

Quantum device can pick up heart signals

Cattle prefer the touch of a woman

Huge nose key to success of male proboscis monkeys

Really brief

Our forgotten oases • Ponds have long been neglected by science, but we can’t afford to ignore these nature hotspots any more, say Jeremy Biggs and Penny Williams

Field notes from space-time • Cosmic conundrums Discovering how weird black holes are made me want to be a physicist. There is still so much to learn about these strange regions, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Amazing avians

Emerging Technologies Summit • Hundreds of business executives and thought leaders met at an event hosted by New Scientist in London to discuss how the latest innovations will affect their industries

Facing up to our AI future • To understand the power – and limitations – of artificial intelligence, we need information, not hype. Alex Wilkins explores what four new books offer

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The games column • Coral magic There’s nothing quite like the feel of board games, especially this colourful one involving ocean ecosystems. Opponents may take the tile you wanted and scoring is fiendishly complex, but it is a great way to relax, says Jacob Aron

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