Health
Fresh air and sunshine: The forgotten antibiotics
Features
This week's magazine
14 December 2013
Issue 2947
Editor's picks
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Health
Mandela catalysed treatment of HIV in Africa
Among the tributes to Nelson Mandela this week were those extolling his role in galvanising the global effort against HIV
News
Space
Reality TV robot could be first private Mars lander
News
Health
A healthier diet costs $1.50 more per day
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
Shrimp crash forces first fishery closure for 35 years
News
Health
Relapse of ‘cured’ men shows HIV is far from beaten
News
Earth
Radioactive acid spill in Australian national park
News
Environment
America’s hidden epidemic of tropical diseases
News
Life
Surprisingly youthful Mars surface helps alien hunt
News
Health
Diet switch sparks gut bug revolution in just 24 hours
News
Earth
Ultra-thin fault caused gravity-distorting Japan quake
News
Life
The 19 superbugs that rule Earth’s hidden depths
News
Health
Dyslexia’s roots traced to bad brain connections
News
Life
Grow a new brain: First steps to lab-made grey matter
News
Life
Alien life could have basked in big bang’s afterglow
News
Environment
Chameleon colours predict outcome of lizard duel
News
Earth
Bats may struggle to hunt in warmer world
News
Technology
Skin pigment could power safe, implantable battery
News
Health
Look to mosquito smell neurons to find new repellents
News
Environment
Zoologger: The mollusc that never forgets a meal
News
Space
Fiercest meteor shower on record to hit Mars via comet
News
Space
Astrophile: Dancing black holes near their grand finale
News
Health
Brain stimulation gives you will to persevere
News
Technology
Physical keys could take away the pain of passwords
News
Technology
Play video games to help military secure its software
News
Life
How do you control a spermbot? Try a magnetic field
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Technology
Eye-tracker lets you drag and drop files with a glance
News
Opinion
Environment
Want to fix US inequality? Begin with worming tablets
President Obama says he's declared war on inequality in the US 鈥� he should include a drive against the tropical diseases afflicting the nation's poor
Opinion
Space
NASA cash changes leave planet science up in the air
Opinion
Time to be adult about pornography
Opinion
Humans
What should we do about pornography?
Opinion
Earth
Mining insider: ‘Leave the coal in the ground’
Opinion
Earth
Four simple principles to plan the best city possible
Opinion
Features
Health
Fresh air and sunshine: The forgotten antibiotics
Florence Nightingale knew about them. Your grandparents might have known about them. So why have doctors turned their backs on these two potent germ killers?
Features
Space
Ultimate selfie: Space megacamera will map Milky Way
Features
Earth
Did asteroid fracking cause Earth’s worst extinction?
Features
Earth
Swindlers and scientists: How to get gold from the sea
Features
Culture
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Regulars
Feedback: What would quantum agriculture be?
Lateness in the abstract, relativistically expanding confusion, what would quantum agriculture be? and more
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
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