Space
Planet or not, Ceres rocks
Opinion
This week's magazine
28 March 2015
Issue 3014
Editor's picks
Table of contents
Leaders
快猫短视频
Health
First year-long stay on the ISS about to begin
One twin will spend the year in space, the other on the ground. Monitoring their health could let us tease apart the effects of space flight from genetics
News
Worst Ebola outbreak blamed on political dithering
News
Only pub sceptics will insist this isn’t Richard III
News
Space
NASA’s Curiosity rover finds fatty acids on Mars
News
Health
Warn people of genetic health risks, says deCODE boss
News
60 Seconds
News
Environment
Secret-science bill inches a step closer to US law
News
Europe’s electricity grid sails through solar eclipse
News
Space
Dwarf planet Ceres might have right stuff for life
News
Superbug risk from tonnes of antibiotics fed to animals
News
Arctic winter sea ice shrinks to record low
News
Health
9/11 firefighters hit by autoimmune diseases
News
Swiss cheese is not a sign of Martian climate change
News
Jungle festivals led to first Maya cities
News
Health
Alzheimer’s progress slowed by plaque-busting drug
News
Space
Black holes devour stars in gulps and nibbles
News
Environment
Zoologger: The semaphore ‘worms’ as big as sperm whales
News
Sushi parasite inspires worm test for cancer
News
Earth
Turbo termites threaten to eat Florida
News
Space
Wrecking ball Jupiter paved way for Earth
News
Environment
Cane toad has surprise effect on Australian ecosystem
News
The way to strike gold is to have a mine like a sewer
News
Brain training may help people with ADHD to focus
News
Electric cars are so cool they may make it colder
News
Earth
North Dakota curbs wasteful flares of oil drilling gas
News
Technology
Drones cleared to check power lines after outages
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Life
Uber opens up to let any object or app call you a cab
News
Opinion
Earth
Natural disaster amnesia: Threats we choose to forget
Two centuries ago the biggest volcanic eruption in history unleashed mayhem across the world. Are we prepared for an inevitable repeat?
Opinion
English speakers, you stink at identifying smells
Opinion
Bank of England guru: We’re crowdsourcing economics
Opinion
Features
Humans
Know it all: 10 secrets of successful learning
Forget highlighting and mnemonics and embrace the memory-enhancing power of quizzes, distractions, video games, good timing and just chilling
Features
Earth
Battle-scarred Earth: How war reshapes the planet
Features
Health
Clone your tumour to fight your cancer
Features
Culture
Technology
David and Goliath: What do we do about surveillance?
From spyware designed to catch students misbehaving to police tracking rioters by phone, we are spied on as never before, reveals a book by Bruce Schneier
Culture
Earth
How landscapes mould language and lives
Culture
Life
Why food is rarely the simple pleasure it once was
Culture
