After a summit of EU leaders in Salzburg, EU leaders poured cold water over Theresa May’s Chequers deal. Simon Usherwood assesses whether there is any life left in the prime minister’s Brexit plan.

Where a child grows up in the UK influences their chances of being taken into care, or experiencing abuse or neglect. Paul Bywaters and his colleagues have found that children in Northern Ireland are far less likely to grow up in care – and they are trying to understand why. Meanwhile, Lindsay Hamilton and Emma Surman write about how to improve children’s well-being: get them to eat better by understanding where food comes from. One way to do that is to teach them gardening.

Since before Icarus learned the hard way that flying is harder than it looks, scientists have been trying to figure out how birds seem effortlessly able to soar from one thermal to another in order to stay in the air almost indefinitely. Nick Martin explains the research putting AI into a glider that will enable it to learn how to find updrafts. The researchers hope this development will make flying smarter and more efficient.

On a recent trip to Italy, Robert Hearn was intrigued to discover families of wild boar making their home in Genoa – a city in the northern region of Liguria. As Italy’s rural population dwindles, traditional agricultural and woodland knowledge is fading away – and with nature encroaching, city slickers must now find new ways to live alongside their porcine neighbours.

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