This week's magazine
Editor's picks
Opinion
Health
Hay fever: Why it’s not to be sneezed at
Features
Health
Hay fever: What makes the immune system go haywire?
Features
Health
Hay fever: What happens when an allergy kicks in?
Features
Health
Hay fever: Are allergy seasons getting worse?
Features
Health
Hay fever: Do allergies change over time?
Features
Health
Hay fever: Can airborne allergies be cured?
Features
Physics
Quantum purity: How the big picture banishes weirdness
Features
Earth
Ocean commotion: Protecting sea life from our noise
Features
Table of contents
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Earth
Emissions pledges trickle in for UN climate deal
Several big carbon emitters, including the EU and US, have filed plans for cutting emissions ahead of a UN deadline in the run-up to the Paris climate summit
News
Earth
How can we be sure Iran sticks to historic nuke deal?
News
Health
‘Reversible’ abortions: how sound is the science?
News
Earth
Drought prompts 25 per cent water cut in California
News
Megabucks pouring into global brain science projects
News
60 Seconds
News
Technology
Why Obama’s cyber sanctions won’t deter digital crime
News
Physics
Large Hadron Collider beam is back in action
News
Health
Baby genes to be mapped at birth in medical first
News
Life
Would I have the genome of my baby sequenced?
News
Health
Sparks of consciousness mapped in most detail yet
News
Space
Looking into the voids could help explain dark energy
News
Life
Did neurons evolve more than once on Earth?
News
Environment
Life below Antarctic ice survives on ancient forests
News
Health
Sexy men make others take bigger risks with money
News
Fabric fights fire and water at the same time
News
Space
Baby star before-and-after shows how it gets massive
News
Environment
Werewolf plant waits for the light of the full moon
News
Health
Wine and glue tape ideal for post-surgery patch-ups
News
Earth
Plague hits prairie dogs and changes US ecosystems
News
Life
Brain compass implant gives blind rats psychic GPS
News
Technology
Human cruise control app steers people on their way
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Technology
When will live-streaming apps like Periscope get interesting?
News
Technology
ISIS tweets reveal how the group rules its territories
News
Opinion
Health
Radicalisation: A mental health issue, not a religious one
To understand the appeal of extremist ideologies we need to look beyond the usual explanations, says a professor of epidemiology
Opinion
Earth
Soon every summer will be too hot for corals
Opinion
Technology
A cybercrime wave is coming – brace yourself
Opinion
Features
Health
Hay fever: Why it’s not to be sneezed at
With hay fever going epidemic thanks to pollution and invasive super-pollens, we may have to turn to novel treatments to control our immune systems
Features
Health
Hay fever: What makes the immune system go haywire?
Features
Health
Hay fever: What happens when an allergy kicks in?
Features
Health
Hay fever: Are allergy seasons getting worse?
Features
Health
Hay fever: Do allergies change over time?
Features
Health
Hay fever: Can airborne allergies be cured?
Features
Physics
Quantum purity: How the big picture banishes weirdness
Features
Earth
Ocean commotion: Protecting sea life from our noise
Features
Culture
Earth
Future Arctic: Why it’s time for action, not resignation
From the fate of the caribou to the oil sands industry, Edward Struzik's book paints troubling pictures of an unseen Arctic and explores options to save it
Culture
Science in Wonderland: Educated by fairy tales
Culture
Earth
Thank You, Madagascar: Diary of a life among lemurs
Culture