This week's magazine
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Table of contents
Leaders
Counting the hidden victims of medicine
Drug side effects and other unintended consequences of medical treatment may be killing and hurting more people than we thought
Opinion
Technology
Google’s thermostat could spy on your home life
Opinion
Physics
The u-bit may be omniscient, but it’s no God particle
Opinion
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Kazakh mathematician may have solved $1 million puzzle
Mathematics may be a universal language but a possible proof of a fiendish problem is proving hard to evaluate – partly because it isn't written in English
News
Earth
Made in China: Up to a quarter of California smog
News
Space
Up and at ’em: Rosetta craft gaining on target comet
News
Technology
Obama promises to curb some of NSA’s snooping power
News
Health
Threatwatch: Drug-resistant TB looms even larger
News
Cheap DNA: What the $1000-genome means for you
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
Germany’s energy revolution on verge of collapse
News
Health
Giant leaps of evolution make cancer cells deadly
News
Physics
A random wolf on Wall Street could calm stock markets
News
Life
Water found in stardust suggests life is universal
News
Long-lost lake may have helped humans out of Africa
News
Technology
Google’s quantum computer flunks landmark speed test
News
Health
Popping pills for flu fever might make things worse
News
Earth
Devastating El Niño events to double this century
News
Earth
Ice-age animals live on in Eurasian mountain range
News
Technology
Laser makes ultra-light mirror out of tiny beads
News
Life
New species of river dolphin born of Amazon rapids
News
Space
Dwarf planet caught spitting inside asteroid belt
News
Environment
Zoologger: Squid snares prey using badly blurred vision
News
Health
Plastic injection protects mouse hearts after attack
News
Physics
Fastest routes revealed by mimicking electrical flow
News
Earth
Natural ball lightning probed for the first time
News
Environment
Insect minions banned from breeding by same signal
News
Health
Gene therapy restores sight in people with eye disease
News
Space
Japan’s huge magnetic net will trawl for space junk
News
Technology
Wireless charging for electric vehicles hits the road
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Health
Smartphone EEG to diagnose epilepsy in poor nations
News
Health
Bendy implant harnesses the power of your beating heart
News
Technology
Nest thermostat acquisition is Google’s home invasion
News
Opinion
Health
McMath and Muñoz cases challenge definition of death
Two brain-dead patients kept on life support are causing controversy. Do we need to rethink life's cut-off point, wonders a medical ethicist
Opinion
Health
H. flu fighter: Targeting a key bug in lung disease
Opinion
Health
Psychobiotics: How gut bacteria mess with your mind
Opinion
Features
Physics
From i to u: Searching for the quantum master bit
Our best theory of nature has imaginary numbers at its heart. Making quantum physics more real conjures up a monstrous entity pulling the universe's strings
Features
Environment
Antibiotic abyss: The extreme quest for new medicines
Features
Health
Right on target: New era of fast genetic engineering
Features
Health
Ecstatic epilepsy: How seizures can be bliss
Features
Culture
Regulars
Environment
Feedback: And then there were lawyers
First the polar bears whimpered and then there were lawyers, wandering pole problem, the internet before its time and more
polar bears
This Week’s Letters
Letters
Dead end?
Last Word
Slip the difference
Last Word
Bubbling under
Last Word
The beet goes on
Last Word
Big bright spark
Last Word
Shake, shiver
Last Word