This week's magazine
22 November 2014
Issue 2996
Editor's picks
Opinion
Physics
Us vs universe: Unfuzzying the uncertainty principle
Features
Physics
Us vs universe: How to get below absolute zero
Features
Physics
Us vs universe: Seeing smaller than the limit of light
Features
Physics
Us vs universe: Hold still while the Earth trembles
Features
Physics
Us vs universe: Taking the twinkle out of the stars
Features
Physics
Us vs universe: Seeing before the cosmos’s first light
Features
Physics
Us vs universe: Quantum dance enters forbidden zone
Features
Physics
Us vs universe: Adventures in breaking light speed
Features
Humans
Magic shoes: How to hear yourself instantly happy
Features
Earth
Total white out: Snowshoe hares vs global warming
Features
Earth
Simply the biggest: The great dam of China
Features
Table of contents
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Environment
Two different fates for bluefin tuna
While Pacific bluefin tuna is in decline thanks to the growing popularity of sushi, fishing quotas for Eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna are being increased
News
Health
How bird flu threatens Europe’s Christmas turkeys
News
Health
Ebola blood and drug trials to start in December
News
Earth
Conservation report reinforces fears over ‘paper parks’
News
60 Seconds
News
Technology
Challenges for US-Iran nuclear talks
News
Space
Is mystery Russian spacecraft a satellite-killer?
News
Health
Being born early is now the chief cause of infant death
News
Space
Philae lander sleeps but Rosetta mission lives on
News
Health
Largest study of gay brothers homes in on ‘gay genes’
News
Earth
Dawn of farming sparked speed-evolution in weeds
News
Chance to bury your DNA on the moon in a time capsule
News
Life
People taught synaesthesia learn to read in colour
News
Health
‘Good viruses’ defend gut when bacteria are wiped out
News
Health
Contact lenses with built-in video could be 3D printed
News
Life
Habitable exomoons born in cosmic collisions
News
Earth
Warming world means a hike in US lightning strikes
News
Life
Seastar ripper prime suspect pinned down
News
Physics
Dark matter could be seen in GPS time glitches
News
Life
Infanticide drives female promiscuity and big balls
News
Health
Cells act like old tape recorders to monitor health
News
Health
Hackathon develops tech tools to fight Ebola epidemic
News
Technology
Surveillance box alerts you to break-in noise at home
News
Environment
Radar net protects tigers and keeps them neighbourly
News
Technology
Plastic pads let you climb walls like Spider-Man
News
Opinion
Earth
Violence ahead as tragedies of the commons spread
The world risks heading the way of Easter Island – a spiral into conflict as depleted natural resources are plundered
Opinion
Earth
I’m cracking the future of food – no chickens required
Opinion
10 years ago science was broken – I’m making it better
Opinion
Analysis
Features
Physics
Us vs universe: Unfuzzying the uncertainty principle
There is a loophole in Heisenberg's quantum uncertainty principle – and we're squeezing light through it to detect gravitational waves
Features
Physics
Us vs universe: How to get below absolute zero
Features
Physics
Us vs universe: Seeing smaller than the limit of light
Features
Physics
Us vs universe: Hold still while the Earth trembles
Features
Physics
Us vs universe: Taking the twinkle out of the stars
Features
Physics
Us vs universe: Seeing before the cosmos’s first light
Features
Physics
Us vs universe: Quantum dance enters forbidden zone
Features
Physics
Us vs universe: Adventures in breaking light speed
Features
Humans
Magic shoes: How to hear yourself instantly happy
Features
Earth
Total white out: Snowshoe hares vs global warming
Features
Earth
Simply the biggest: The great dam of China
Features