This week's magazine
Editor's picks
Table of contents
¿ìè¶ÌÊÓÆµ
Health
‘Hug’ brain test could diagnose conditions like autism
Asking people to think about social situations as their brain is scanned could become one of the first evidence-based tests for psychiatric conditions
News
Space
Hayabusa 2 probe begins journey to land on an asteroid
News
Health
Genetic analysis confirms Richard III skeleton find
News
Health
Ebola burials target met as number of cases plateaus
News
Space
NASA test launches Orion space capsule for Mars trip
News
Online abuse case heard by Supreme Court for first time
News
Tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay to boost flood defences
News
60 Seconds
News
Humans
Shell ‘art’ made 300,000 years before humans evolved
News
Technology
Google and NASA ride D-Wave to a quantum future
News
Space
Spotted: First quadruple star image produced by gravity
News
Health
HIV evolves into less deadly form
News
Earth
Armies of ants keep New York squeaky clean
News
Health
The smart mouse with the half-human brain
News
Life
Alien life arrested by climate catch-22
News
Health
Has the brain-zap backlash begun?
News
Environment
Zoologger: The rodent with a taste for spines
News
Health
Super-safe iodide may save millions from heart disease
News
Earth
First carnivorous-plant fossil is 40 million years old
News
Physics
Time cloak used to hide messages in laser light
News
Life
Lucky strike in search for Earth’s most common mineral
News
Technology
Bulletproof graphene makes ultra-strong body armour
News
Technology
Cleaning bot operators get censored view of your home
News
Technology
Curious bots make better companions in the classroom
News
Technology
Haptic holograms let you touch the void in VR
News
Technology
Locked-on lasers burn through leaves on train lines
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Technology
Social media T&Cs branded as ‘meaningless drivel’
News
Opinion
Earth
Don’t drop the two-degree climate target
The global climate target of 2 °C has been criticised as scientifically and politically meaningless, but we ditch it at our peril
Opinion
Physics
I’m making science in Africa a numbers game
Opinion
Humans
What Pacific islanders have taught me about friendship
Opinion
Features
Environment
Root intelligence: Plants can think, feel and learn
With an underground "brain network" and the ability to react and remember, plants have their own kind of intelligence – and may even cry out in pain
Features
Health
Cereal killer: Are you eating too much iron?
Features
Space
Join our shoestring mission to find life on Europa
Features
Environment
The deepest limits: How low can fish go?
Features
Culture
Earth
How we can avert the coming mass extinction
From can-do technical fixes to listening to Earth's peoples, there are ways to mitigate our devastation of nature, argue two new books
Culture
Humans
Too simple minds: Debunking myths about the human brain
Culture
Environment
The wonders of orchids: Beautiful, smelly and sexy
Culture
Technology
The nitty-gritty of killing off WMDs
Culture