This week's magazine
27 July 2013
Issue 2927
Editor's picks
Table of contents
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Health
It’s official: we’re seduced by cigarette packaging
Results from smokers in Australia suggest that plain packaging makes cigarettes less satisfying and prompts people to consider quitting
News
Earth
Forget RoboCop – Detroit to turn green to regenerate
News
Earth
Gimme swelter: we explain the UK and US heatwaves
News
Earth
CIA spooks investigate geoengineering to fix climate
News
DNA finally nails the notorious Boston Strangler
News
60 Seconds
News
Technology
Why UK’s net porn filter will be tricky to enforce
News
Physics
Pitch drop caught on camera after 69-year wait
News
Super-organs: building body parts better than nature
News
Wormhole entanglement gives space-time the bends
News
Quantum romance: Wormhole unites star-crossed lovers
News
Eye receptor transplant promises therapy for blindness
News
Life
Gut bacteria vital in evolution of new animal species
News
Life
My so-called viral life: is discovery new life form?
News
Space
Cosmic collisions spin stellar corpses into gold
News
Earth
Huge methane belch in Arctic could cost $60 trillion
News
Flatworm given power to regrow its head
News
Space
Astrophile: Rhythmic dance helps star lovers mature
News
Life
Vendettas, not war? Unpicking why our ancestors killed
News
Physics
Black hole feasting may help crack four cosmic puzzles
News
Earth
Alive! Mammals survived Toba’s super-volcanic winter
News
Life
Zoologger: The pint-sized sabre-toothed opossum
News
Physics
Light completely stopped for a record-breaking minute
News
Health
Men’s sperm quality decreases at age 35
News
Technology
Kindergarten coders can program before they can read
News
Technology
A phone, or an all-seeing sentry at your command?
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Environment
Google searches mined to uncover our true opinions
News
Technology
Sensor knows when you’re lying through your teeth
News
Opinion
Health
New thinking means new hope on depression
The unexpected success of novel treatments might eventually help everyone who suffers from depression
Opinion
Space
Reality bites: the lessons of Biosphere 2
Opinion
Earth
We can’t afford to wait on climate change
Opinion
Earth
Outbreak of global warming optimism is naive
Opinion
Life
‘Parasitism is the most popular lifestyle on Earth’
Opinion
Health
Medicine hunter of the Brazilian Amazon
Opinion
Features
Health
Fixing broken brains: a new understanding of depression
Untreatable depression is on the rise, hinting at fundamental flaws in our understanding of the illness. But new treatments offer hope for everyone
Features
Space
Wacky spaces: The odd orbits that boost rocket trips
Features
Space
Biosphere 2: Saving the world within a world
Features
Space
Super-supernovae spell trouble for dark energy
Features