Earth
The world pays too high a price for cheap meat
Opinion
This week's magazine
24 January 2015
Issue 3005
Editor's picks
Table of contents
Leaders
快猫短视频
Earth
Did shrinking Lake Chad help Boko Haram grow?
By bringing poverty, could Lake Chad's decline have fostered extremism? If so, a grand plan to refill the lake could help turn things around
News
Earth
World leaders in Davos to focus on risks to humanity
News
Space
Beagle 2 spotted on Mars in one piece after 11 years
News
Health
Open talk about suicide in the UK might prevent it
News
60 Seconds
News
Health
Ukraine is left struggling as health workers flee
News
Health
First anti-obesity electronic implant wins US approval
News
Earth
Shocking state of world’s riskiest nuclear waste site
News
Physics
Weird cosmic echoes may offer new glimpse of big bang
News
Health
Extroverts may have stronger immune systems
News
Earth
Lab-bound bacteria could lead to ‘safer’ GM organisms
News
Space
Japan might get to name the most alien worlds
News
Health
Soviet Union fall helped drug-resistant TB to take off
News
Environment
Meteorite mineral named after beer is time capsule
News
Life
If birds in a truck fly, does the truck get lighter?
News
Environment
Cunning snails drug fish with insulin then eat them
News
Life
Geese use the Himalayas like a massive rollercoaster
News
Technology
Super-zoom for microscope samples made from nappies
News
Health
Antibiotics in blood up chance mossies pass on malaria
News
Space
Mystery storms rage across face of Uranus
News
Humans
Zoologger: Spider has sex, then chews off own genitals
News
Health
Mice are first pioneers of medical micromissiles
News
Technology
Peer-to-peer lending heralds mortgages without banks
News
Technology
Uber’s taxi data will help us understand our cities
News
Technology
Smart clothes double as pregnancy health tracker
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Opinion
Health
Social failure, not lifestyle, has made Scots sick
Job loss and social breakdown, not smoking and bad diet, lie at the roots of Scotland's infamously high rate of premature death, says a public health expert
Opinion
Health
Genome hunter: Rare diseases make people want to help
Opinion
Environment
E. O. Wilson: Religious faith is dragging us down
Opinion
Features
Health
Let them eat steak: How to eat meat the healthy way
Linked to all manner of illness and an eco-villain too 鈥� meat has an image problem. But the evidence says that smart diners can welcome it back to the menu
Features
Humans
Where heroes come from 鈥� and how to become one
Features
Health
Shoes vs barefoot: The myth of the normal foot
Features
Culture
Humans
Ex Machina: Quest to create an AI takes no prisoners
Alex Garland's directorial debut is a better film because of, and not despite, its engagement with consciousness research, says neuroscientist Anil Seth
Culture
Earth
Eco-city dreams vs real eco-activism
Culture
Earth
Turbulent lessons from tropical storms
Culture
