This week's magazine
Editor's picks
Opinion
Physics
The big bang blip: Solving the mystery of why matter exists
Features
Health
Good looking: The veggies that really do boost night vision
Features
Health
Good looking: Phone screens that do the focusing for you
Features
Health
Good looking: Keep moving if you want to keep seeing
Features
Health
Good looking: Super lens implants are going mainstream
Features
Health
Good looking: Video games that can help you see better
Features
Health
Good looking: How time outdoors could protect kids’ eyesight
Features
Earth
Methane apocalypse? Defusing the Arctic’s time bomb
Features
Table of contents
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Speed-limiting technology could have averted train derailment
The technology that could have prevented the deadliest train crash in the US in 20 years already exists but has yet to be rolled out across the country
News
Earth
2 ºC warming goal shaky as governments throw cash at fossil fuel
News
Health
Vital antibiotics research needs radical new incentives
News
Earth
New Zealand’s worst earthquake fear confirmed by sediment survey
News
Environment
60 Seconds
News
Environment
Last chance plan to save world’s rarest ape, the Hainan gibbon
News
Space
Secret US X-37B plane takes to the skies to experiment in space
News
Earth
Americans face six-fold hike in exposure to extreme heat by 2070
News
Health
Home-brew heroin: soon anyone will be able to make illegal drugs
News
Life
Unravelling capitalism’s hidden networks of power
News
Health
Bad memories drive lab rats to rescue drenched companions faster
News
Life
Oldest broken bone reveals our ancestors’ switch to life on land
News
Health
Barcode your egg and sperm cells to avoid IVF mix-ups
News
Supernova space bullets could have seeded Earth’s iron core
News
Environment
Bigger brains help female fish outwit predators and live longer
News
Health
Young blood helps repair fractured bones of ageing mice
News
Humans
Your brain’s unique response to words can reveal your identity
News
Health
Iron levels in brain predict when people will get Alzheimer’s
News
Earth
Exact map of salmon journeys drawn from strontium in their ears
News
Life
Zoologger: The clumsy tree-dweller transforms into a gliding ace
News
Health
Flies share basic elements of human fear – but is it emotion?
News
Technology
Virtual worlds so good they’ll change our grasp on real life
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Humans
Pics and chat data are hackable on apps like Tinder and Grindr
News
Technology
The internet is running out of room – but we can save it
News
Opinion
Earth
No rest for the Arctic: As big oil pulls out, military muscles in
When oil prices crashed, ecologists hoped the Arctic would get some breathing space. Instead, the military occupied this pristine wilderness
Opinion
Why I’m staying on free speech’s front line
Opinion
Life
Cuckoos against the clock: Charming cheats in mystery decline
Opinion
Earth
We must put the brakes on glaciers to stop the seas rising
Opinion
Features
Physics
The big bang blip: Solving the mystery of why matter exists
Matter and antimatter should have wiped each other out at the universe’s birth. The upgraded Large Hadron Collider aims to find why matter alone survived
Features
Health
Good looking: Phone screens that do the focusing for you
Features
Health
Good looking: The veggies that really do boost night vision
Features
Health
Good looking: Keep moving if you want to keep seeing
Features
Health
Good looking: Super lens implants are going mainstream
Features
Health
Good looking: Video games that can help you see better
Features
Health
Good looking: How time outdoors could protect kids’ eyesight
Features
Earth
Methane apocalypse? Defusing the Arctic’s time bomb
Features
Culture
Physics
Einstein and Schrödinger: The price of fame
From personal feuds to fruitless quests to overhaul quantum theory, the two physics legends fought hard to maintain their fame, argues a new book
Culture
Physics
Getting an insight into Einstein’s worlds
Culture
Environment
How to Clone a Mammoth: But should we?
Culture