This week's magazine
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US government shutdown: Doing away with the dollar
What would the world look like without the dollar's supremacy? As US officials seek a deal to end the shutdown, some commentators are eyeing alternatives
News
Chemical weapons watchdog in surprise Nobel win
News
Health
Threatwatch: Disease may run amok while the CDC sleeps
News
Health
Badly run trials behind Indian drug testing freeze
News
Environment
60 Seconds
News
Earth
Nine in 10 European city dwellers breathe bad air
News
Technology
Quantum computing contender helps refine Google Glass
News
Earth
How UK’s first nuclear reactor for 25 years will work
News
Health
Back from the dead: Reversing walking corpse syndrome
News
Space
Earth’s super-siblings grew up very differently
News
Physics
Light can break Newton’s third law – by cheating
News
Earth
For instant climate change, just add one large comet
News
Health
Ketamine-like drug lifts depression without the trip
News
Environment
Monkey feels touch with prosthetic hand
News
Space
Zombie star caught feasting on a soggy asteroid
News
Earth
Diving in Bermuda to find the coral reef survivors
News
Health
Resistant cancers may hijack fetus’s detox switch
News
Health
New botox super-toxin has its details censored
News
Life
Zoologger: Elephants understand what it means to point
News
Space
‘Black glass’ could be first comet chunk found on Earth
News
Humans
Watch specialised number neurons in action
News
Earth
Worm turns from zero to climate change hero
News
Humans
Hunter-gatherers got on fine with Europe’s first farmers
News
Space
Planet Bling: solar system’s giants host megadiamonds
News
Technology
Solar-powered cars streak across Australia
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Humans
Virtual role-playing teaches kids the harm of bullying
News
Technology
Augmented reality system makes cars see-through
News
Opinion
Earth
Don’t let nuclear renaissance bury carbon capture
While building new nuclear reactors, the UK must store carbon dioxide from fossil fuels, otherwise it will increase emissions just as it needs to cut them
Opinion
Humans
Neuroscience wrongs will make a right
Opinion
Health
Menthol cigarettes: Stub out these seductive smokes
Opinion
Earth
Don’t demonise palm oil to save orang-utans
Opinion
Health
How neuroscience can make you kinder
Opinion
Features
Health
Hidden depths: Brain science is drowning in uncertainty
The edifice of research being built with brain scans is flawed. It’s time to rethink the approach to build a more complete understanding of the mind
Features
Earth
Past blast: The lost volcano that set off an ice age
Features
Life
Cosmic chemistry: Life’s molecules are made in space
Features
Earth
Extreme rhubarb: The plant that grows a greenhouse
Features