Health
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This week's magazine
21 March 2015
Issue 3013
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
快猫短视频
First successful penis transplant
Three years after a botched circumsion, a 21-year-old received a new penis that is now fully functional. The surgeons plan to repeat the procedure in nine other men
News
Space
#RosettaWatch: New clues about the origin of comet 67P
News
Earth
Vanuatu disaster prompts calls for climate change action
News
Health
Editing human embryos is genetics’ new battleground
News
Earth
EU food imports help drive illegal deforestation
News
Earth
California must ration water to avoid drought disaster
News
60 Seconds
News
Space
Another hiccup for Mars One’s mission to the Red Planet
News
Humans
Red Lady cave burial reveals Stone Age secrets
News
Life
Ancient invaders transformed Britain, but not its DNA
News
Life
Race to find the first exomoon heats up
News
Health
IVF nutrients may dictate if the baby’s a boy or girl
News
Environment
Icy pools are oases for unique glacier ecosystems
News
Health
Heart drug reduces risk of cancer spreading
News
Earth
Warming Arctic blamed for worsening summer heatwaves
News
Health
Vibrating magnetic balls stimulate brain wirelessly
News
Environment
Zoologger: The baby spiders that munch up their mum
News
Space
Quasar backlighting gives weight to Andromeda galaxy
News
Life
Worm throws Spiderman web 鈥� here’s how it does it
News
Space
Ice makes unlikely rocket fuel for CubeSats
News
Space
Explosive eruptions rocked the youthful moon
News
Health
NHS game-changers: The antibiotic apocalypse
News
NHS game-changers: Growing gap between rich and poor
News
Health
NHS game-changers: The true cost of living longer
News
Healthcare tips from around the globe
News
NHS game-changers: Rise of the data-empowered patient
News
The scientific advances that will help save the NHS
News
Earth
NHS game-changers: The rising threat of climate change
News
Health
Why healthcare success is so hard to replicate
News
Life
Video games beat interviews to recruit the very best
News
Technology
Falcons learn to hunt by chasing drones
News
Technology
How Charles Dickens can create passwords you remember
News
Technology
One per cent
News
Health
Pregnancy belt for lifelogging in the womb
News
Environment
Wizards of Oz: World’s cutest and most awesome spiders
News
Opinion
Technology
Hashtag election: Will it be Twitter wot won it?
More and more politicians are using social networks to engage with voters. What is the impact of the digital campaign?
Opinion
Earth
All hail the Anthropocene, the end of Holocene thinking
Opinion
Earth
I watched a flood of aid destroy a culture
Opinion
Features
Humans
Me, myself and iCub: Meet the robot with a self
The human self has five components. Machines now have three of them. How far away is artificial consciousness 鈥� and what does it tell us about ourselves?
Features
Life
Norse legend? The Viking ‘GPS’ that relied on crystals
Features
Earth
Clucking hell: The nightmare world without chickens
Features
Culture
Life
Is Shame Necessary? It can be in the right hands
Public shaming can force institutions to change their ways, finds Jennifer Jacquet 鈥� while Jon Ronson explores how it can lead to mob rule on the internet
Culture
Win SCI-FI-LONDON tickets with a smart movie line
Culture
Flatland: An unseen art installation
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: Artificial stupidity rules KO
We catalogue fruitloopery fairly completely, Flash out of the frying pan, an oddly well-named scientist and more
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