This week's magazine
1 November 2014
Issue 2993
Editor's picks
Table of contents
Leaders
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Earth
Plan to save Great Barrier Reef doomed to failure
The only targets set by the Australian government's plan to maintain the Great Barrier Reef are impossible to meet. It's doomed to fail say leading scientists
News
Space
Comet stinks of rotten eggs and cat wee, finds Rosetta
News
Earth
EU emissions target isn’t as ambitious as it seems
News
60 Seconds
News
UK to build world’s biggest weather supercomputer
News
Guzzling milk might boost your risk of breaking bones
News
Health
Number of disease outbreaks jumps fourfold since 1980
News
Health
Brain decoder can eavesdrop on your inner voice
News
Earth
A killer plague wouldn’t save the planet from us
News
Earth
Farm salt poisoning costs $27 billion annually
News
Physics
Historic quantum software is run for the first time
News
Humans
Why bird divorces are good news for the females
News
Space
Supernova shock waves create glowing arcs across sky
News
Health
Future scenarios show how easily Ebola could explode
News
Physics
Fresh hints of dark matter at Milky Way’s core
News
Health
Biological litmus paper detects Ebola strains
News
Cold moon Enceladus has heart of warm fluff
News
Health
Trap cells in sound to create strong cartilage
News
Health
Cellular alchemy turns skin cells into brain cells
News
Earth
Arctic melt means more severe winters likely – for now
News
Technology
Gold origami exerts strange power over light
News
Life
Virus recreated after 700 years in icy caribou poo
News
Health
Can chocolate boost memory? Only in insane amounts
News
Environment
Zoologger: Extreme nomad scrambles for shrimp bonanza
News
Humans
Computer with human-like learning will program itself
News
Technology
White noise for your nose cancels pungent aromas
News
Technology
Food bland? Electric spoon zaps taste into every bite
News
Health
Heart ops shrink thanks to surgeon in your vein
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Technology
Phone call pulse shows millions hitting the beach
News
Opinion
Physics
Evolution can help head off the next financial crash
To avoid financial crises we must ditch ideological arguments about regulation and understand that the economy is an ecosystem, say three complexity theorists
Opinion
TTIP: How the world’s largest trade deal affects you
Opinion
Earth
TTIP: Europe will still be safe – but more sensible
Opinion
TTIP: Beware the treaty’s empty economic promises
Opinion
Health
TTIP: Healthy profits, but what about people?
Opinion
Features
Health
Smoke without fire: What’s the truth on e-cigarettes?
They've been called safe, dangerous, a way to quit smoking – and a way to start. ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓÆµ sifts through the evidence about e-cigarettes
Features
Humans
Goodbye, paper: What we miss when we read on screen
Features
Earth
Weird wet worlds: Why Earth is lucky to have oceans
Features