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DIGEST

Europe's JUICE mission is off to Jupiter – here's what you need to know • Eight-year journey to the solar system's biggest planet.

World's ice melting five times faster than in the ‘90s

HIV cured in third person after stem cell transplant • The stem cell procedure is risky, but there's mounting evidence that it works.

New map shows the cosmos is less “clumpy” than we thought

Scientists decode Beethoven's genome • Can these genetic insights tell us what killed him?

Could asking GPT-3 replace human surveys in political polling?

Found you! Five new frog species in Papua New Guinea described • And their tadpoles aren't where you'd expect.

Lunar water is being stored in glass beads

Ancient wombat cousin sheds light on how marsupials evolved • The animal is described as a cross between wombats and the extinct marsupial lion.

Scientists look at how single-celled organisms might help build better AI • Harnessing nature's computational power.

Sugar, spice and the origin of life: new theory for the first sugars

Marine scientists have recorded fish at the deepest ever level • Japanese and Australian teams set new record for deep-sea fish photography.

Focus: Future transport

Ancient platypus cousin lived alongside dinosaurs

King of…what?

Sky portal

Iridescent, plant-based coatings that cool buildings – and the Earth • Researchers create a colourful solution to urban heat.

Modelling suggests world population could peak lower, sooner

Australian Mammal of the Year 2023 • Have a say in choosing our annual mammal superstar.

How AI can be used to track pollinators in strawberry crops • AI-driven video analysis helps farmers remotely understand how their crops are pollinated by insects.

The next TINY thing • When you enter the nanoscale, it's a different world – with enormous possibilities.

Currents of life • To grasp the urgency of the climate emergency, we need a deep understanding of our ocean's depths.

Do we understand the brain yet? • The past decade saw billion-dollar projects tasked with decoding the brain. So, asks editorat-large Elizabeth Finkel, how far did we get?

BACTERIA VS VIRUS: death of dengue? • The team behind a novel approach to fighting dengue fever – which was first tested in Australia and demonstrated at scale in Indonesia – is gearing up to launch its most ambitious phase yet. Clare Watson reports.

The Renewal of Naworo • Deep in the Top End's stone country, David Hancock joins Indigenous custodians restoring a revered spirit ancestor.

PROBING THE MANDELA EFFECT • How is it possible to think you're sure about something, only to learn that your memory's let you down, and you were wrong all along? Denise Cullen investigates an odd, and littleunderstood, phenomenon.

Birds without borders • Compact and easily overlooked, bar-tailed godwits make the longest known nonstop flight of any animal on Earth. Drew Rooke reports on the research that led to the amazing feat's discovery – and that is changing much of our understanding of the science of these epic crossings.

This one planet • Vibrant and mesmerising, candid and electrifying, the entries to the 2023 Sony World Photography Awards tell a thousand different stories of our Earth.

Brain eavesdropping • Sci-fi to science: intensely detailed imaging coupled with AI has succeeded in listening into minds and transcribing what it finds there.

DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES

ONE PLACE MANY FUTURES • It's a dot in the...