Space
Our exploration of the solar system is just getting started
Opinion
This week's magazine
13 June 2015
Issue 3025
Editor's picks
Space
First visit to Pluto could rewrite the solar system’s story
Features
Space
Dwarf or planet? First visit to Pluto could reignite the row
Features
Space
How New Horizons will probe mysteries of Pluto’s oddball moons
Features
Health
Why learning in your sleep is an idea that’s reawakening
Features
Earth
What is making mysterious fairy circles appear in the desert?
Features
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Health
Why MERS is more likely to stay a hospital bug than go pandemic
Threatwatch is your early warning system for global dangers, from nuclear peril to deadly viral outbreaks. Debora MacKenzie highlights the threats to civilisation 鈥� and suggests solutions
News
Environment
Monkeys’ cosy alliance with wolves looks like domestication
News
Earth
Four countries are acting as safe havens for African elephants
News
Health
Cheap blood test reveals every virus you’ve ever been exposed to
News
Mind
Defying death is causing back pain, bad teeth and depression
News
鈥楩emale Viagra’ to treat low libido gets go-ahead from FDA panel
News
Environment
Snail’s demise suggests sixth mass extinction is under way
News
60 Seconds
News
LightSail spacecraft successfully deploys solar sail
News
Earth
Norway’s coal disinvestment is still just a drop in the ocean
News
Earth
Latest numbers show at least 5 metres sea-level rise locked in
News
Technology
Microscopic safety inspectors could keep tabs on nuclear reactors
News
Humans
Sixth personality trait measures your Machiavellian potential
News
Sunlight could whip up water to slake lunar settlers’ thirst
News
Rogue wave ahoy! New technique can predict surprise sea threat
News
20 billion nanoparticles talk to the brain using electricity
News
Dinosaur blood cells extracted from 75-million-year-old fossil
News
Environment
Trail-blazing ants show hints of metacognition when seeking food
News
Poisonous orange mini-frogs discovered in Brazilian forest
News
Environment
First evidence of how parents’ lives could change children’s DNA
News
Environment
Handstands and cartwheels turn dwarf mongooses into tough guys
News
Space
Supernova prized by astronomers begins to fade from view
News
Technology
Thrills and spills as world’s best robots take each other on
News
Technology
Kevin Spacey CGI puppet recreated using paparazzi shots
News
Environment
One Per Cent
News
Opinion
Physics
Laser beam warfare is here 鈥� but not as we expected
Ronald Reagan imagined giant lasers in space shooting down Soviet missiles from afar. The reality has turned out to be mercifully modest
Opinion
Health
UK’s legal highs ban is unscientific and will lead to more harm
Opinion
Environment
Chimps with magic stove show evolutionary capacity for cooking
Opinion
Health
Shunning the sun may be killing you in more ways than you think
Opinion
Features
Space
First visit to Pluto could rewrite the solar system’s story
Rivers of neon, geysers of nitrogen, an oddly giant moon: the New Horizons probe promises revealing spectacles 鈥� and insights into deep solar system history
Features
Space
Dwarf or planet? First visit to Pluto could reignite the row
Features
Space
How New Horizons will probe mysteries of Pluto’s oddball moons
Features
Health
Why learning in your sleep is an idea that’s reawakening
Features
Earth
What is making mysterious fairy circles appear in the desert?
Features
