This week's magazine
4 July 2015
Issue 3028
Editor's picks
Table of contents
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What is artificial blood and why is the UK going to trial it?
As it struggles to recruit more blood donors, the UK's National Health Service has announced it will start testing transfusions with lab-grown blood by 2017Â
News
Earth
Brazil agrees to cut Amazon deforestation and boost renewables
News
How same-sex marriage ruling skirts science of ‘born this way’
News
Life
US Supreme Court backs controversial execution drug
News
Technology
Crunch time for Iranian nuclear deal
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
The new regions at risk from mosquitoes carrying diseases
News
Space
SpaceX rocket explosion is setback for US crewed space missions
News
Physics
Physicists launch fight to make data more important than theory
News
Space
Rosetta spots sinkholes and patches of ice on comet’s surface
News
Earth
Did humans do this? Mystery of weird Amazonian savannah solved
News
Physics
Misbehaving pulsar’s sudden slow-down may teach us how they tick
News
Earth
Heat-tolerant genes could help corals adapt to climate change
News
Life
Rats dream about the places they wish to go
News
Health
Dopamine boost restores libido in ageing male fruit flies
News
Life
Zoologger: The vertebrate that digs the deepest nest
News
Space
Galaxy’s supermassive black hole is a cool neighbourhood for ice
News
Environment
Our eye sockets give us a wider field of view than other apes
News
Health
Want tall, smart children? Find an exotic stranger
News
Hoped-for dark matter flash might be dead stars instead
News
Health
Weird cells in your semen? Don’t panic, you might just have flu
News
Environment
Antarctic Yeti crabs cling to hot jets and farm bacteria
News
Health
Health-hackers: The people building apps to manage their illness
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Technology
Why the internet is giving us worse games, books and music
News
Opinion
Earth
Bad economics has killed wind farm subsidies in the UK
Wind turbines can't compete with fossil-fuel power plants unless we factor in the needs of both investors and environment, says a policy expert
Opinion
Health
Solitary confinement is a crime against the mind
Opinion
Technology
Your phone is constantly betraying you
Opinion
Health
For an easier birth, stop thinking about it
Opinion
Features
Environment
The three ancestral tribes that founded Western civilisation
First came the hunters. Then the farmers. Ancient DNA is now revealing how a very different group joined them from the east to lay Europe's foundations
Features
Health
The cancer sniffers: Dogs could be the best tool for diagnosis
Features
Technology
Fog of cyberwar: How nations really attack each other online
Features
Culture
Earth
A welcome dose of environmental optimism
From rainforest revival and green technology to social changes, the age of humans is not necessarily a one-way ticket to eco-disaster, argue three new books
Culture
Black Sheep: Why being bad isn’t all bad
Culture
Earth
Heaven on earth: The multiverse made of rock and grass
Culture