This week's magazine
Editor's picks
Opinion
Humans
Mind expanding: How to hack your attention span
Features
Humans
Mind expanding: Get your memory working
Features
Humans
Mind expanding: Become a logical and rational being
Features
Humans
Mind expanding: Think like a child to learn faster
Features
Humans
Mind expanding: Harness the power of knowledge
Features
Humans
Mind expanding: Creativity on demand
Features
Humans
Mind expanding: Can you increase your IQ?
Features
Humans
Mind expanding: Set your watch for genius
Features
Physics
Untangling physics: Knots in water, light and the sun
Features
Environment
Dead art: Stopping the rot of our greatest creations
Features
Table of contents
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Major medical trials of embryonic stem cells announced
Decades after they were discovered, human embryonic stem cells are being trialled as a treatment for two major diseases: heart failure and聽type 1 diabetes
News
Space
Shuttle map gives the best view yet of Earth’s curves
News
Health
The best and worst countries in the world to be old in
News
Technology
Hong Kong protesters use a mesh network to organise
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
World’s wildlife population halved in just 40 years
News
Earth
Blame climate change for heatwaves that struck in 2013
News
Health
Everyday drugs could give extra years of life
News
Physics
Cosmic inflation is dead, long live cosmic inflation!
News
Environment
Chimp social network shows how new ideas catch on
News
Space
India’s Mars triumph signals a rising space power
News
Health
Baby used in notorious fear experiment is lost no more
News
Environment
Monster neutrino solves cosmic-ray mystery
News
Life
Rogue winds swept humans to last uninhabited islands
News
Technology
World’s smallest microphone is just one molecule
News
Health
Immune signature predicts recovery time after operation
News
Space
Earth gets a new companion for trip around sun
News
Earth
Strange rock formation was “fracked” by ancient quake
News
Environment
Crazy weather traced to Arctic’s impact on jet stream
News
Environment
Zoologger: Fickle female guppies fancy fresh faces
News
Life
Up to half of Earth’s water is older than the sun
News
Environment
Hotspots in India’s tiger-trading network revealed
News
Technology
Sunflower solar harvester provides power and water
News
Technology
Digital flip-book shows changing cities in time-lapse
News
Health
Watson supercomputer looks for genetic heart danger
News
Technology
Online crowd can guess what you want to watch or buy
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Technology
Lip-reading computers unlock with a word
News
Opinion
Earth
Should we upgrade photosynthesis and grow supercrops?
A long-awaited breakthrough by crop scientists raises some thorny issues for conservation. What about a radical solution?
Opinion
Life
Forensics is stranger than fiction, says crime writer
Opinion
Humans
Does a surplus of men really mean more violence?
Opinion
Features
Humans
Mind expanding: How to hack your attention span
Boost your ability to stay focused and you can improve at almost anything. Here are the latest tips for bringing your brain's two attention systems to heel
Features
Humans
Mind expanding: Get your memory working
Features
Humans
Mind expanding: Become a logical and rational being
Features
Humans
Mind expanding: Think like a child to learn faster
Features
Humans
Mind expanding: Harness the power of knowledge
Features
Humans
Mind expanding: Creativity on demand
Features
Humans
Mind expanding: Can you increase your IQ?
Features
Humans
Mind expanding: Set your watch for genius
Features
Physics
Untangling physics: Knots in water, light and the sun
Features
Environment
Dead art: Stopping the rot of our greatest creations
Features
Culture
Earth
In the beginning: How geology taught us to think deep
A new book and exhibition explain how geology has taken us from an unchanging Earth to the knowledge that the rocks are shifting under our feet
Culture
Life
Extreme coping tips for climbing your personal Everest
Culture
Environment
The jaguar whisperer who gave them a voice
Culture