Health
Raise a toast to drugs that could replace alcohol
Opinion
This week's magazine
3 January 2015
Issue 3002
Editor's picks
Table of contents
Leaders
快猫短视频
Space
NASA’s Messenger spacecraft makes final tour of Mercury
As the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury makes one last boost and risks melting its instruments, find out how you can name one of the innermost planet's impact craters
News
Environment
Antarctic tourism may pose disease threat to penguins
News
Health
Acid bath stem-cell scientist can’t reproduce results
News
Earth
Europe set to allow individual nations to ban GM crops
News
60 Seconds
News
Physics
Galaxy-mapping megacamera falls victim to loose fibres
News
Humans
Russia boasts best mental agility at World Mind Games
News
Space
#RosettaWatch: Comet lander could wake up next year
News
Mind
High and dry? Party drug could target excess drinking
News
Environment
Flying high: Drones keep tabs on wildlife from above
News
Space
‘Super-powered oven’ suggests Venus once had continents
News
Humans
Masculine-sounding lawyers less likely to win in court
News
Ice floe serves as lab for drifting Arctic explorers
News
Space
Titan’s lakes could be聽refilled from below
News
Space
Wi-Fi could let robots roam around the ISS
News
Health
Plant extract trumps nicotine patches to quit smoking
News
Earth
Multitalented giant clams keep corals reefs healthy
News
White wine may not really exist
News
Health
Vitamin D’s benefit may lie in syncing our body clocks
News
Technology
Keep snuggly warm with self-heating nanowire clothes
News
Life
Zoologger: Baby lobster with a taste for jellyfish surfing
News
Health
You could be wearing your alibi right now
News
Mind
Personalised learning lets children study at their own pace
News
Technology
One per cent
News
Opinion
Keep science at the heart of new push to end poverty
Science and technology have proved the key to prosperity for poor nations. The 2030 development goals must enshrine this
Opinion
Earth
Just banking seeds won’t guarantee our future food
Opinion
Life
Pet theory: Why domestic animals look cute
Opinion
Features
Physics
Gravity’s secret: How relativity meets quantum physics
Some neat tricks with gravity could finally probe how it affects the quantum realm and allow us to devise a theory of everything, says Michael Brooks
Features
Health
A date with disease: Get the app, risk the clap?
Features
Earth
Seven megaprojects that would change the world
Features
Environment
Wind riders: Amazing albatross flight inspires drones
Features
