Health
IVF can be both a blessing and a curse
Opinion
This week's magazine
1 August 2015
Issue 3032
Editor's picks
Table of contents
Leaders
快猫短视频
Health
Nigeria’s polio-free year sees Africa inch closer to eradication
The World Health Organisation is doing its final checks and could declare Nigeria officially free of polio by September. Somalia could be next
News
Earth
Megafauna extinction: DNA evidence pins blame on climate change
News
Health
First MERS vaccine to be tested in monkeys shows promise
News
Earth
Only 100 tigers left in Bangladesh after last count got it wrong
News
Physics
Earth-like alien world looms into view through Kepler telescope
News
60 Seconds
News
Space
New Horizons spots oozing glaciers and hazy skies on Pluto
News
Technology
Hackers take control of smart car via the internet
News
Earth
Hillary Clinton wants every home to be powered by clean energy
News
Health
When should you get pregnant? Computer knows age to start trying
News
Earth
Earth now halfway to UN global warming limit
News
Earth
Leading climate scientist: Future is bleaker than we thought
News
Space
Neptune’s sudden jolt could explain weird ring in Kuiper belt
News
Health
Consciousness test could spot if someone wakes up during surgery
News
Life
Clusters of living worlds would hint life came from outer space
News
Earth
Iron-age arsonists’ leftovers hint at how Earth’s poles may flip
News
Health
Living lasers made by injecting oil droplets into human cells
News
Health
Interpreting body language is no problem for kids with autism
News
Health
Resistant bacteria don’t just evade drugs 鈥� they are fitter too
News
Physics
Layer of melting ice helps spheres fall faster through water
News
Health
Plague may not be solely to blame for Black Death’s mortality
News
Space
What would happen if a massive comet crashed into the sun?
News
Life
Four-legged fossil holds secret of snake’s slithering origins
News
Technology
The apps that let you earn money while you holiday
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Humans
Is it possible to permanently delete a social media profile?
News
Opinion
Technology
The gamers who only want to explore virtual worlds
Buttonmasher is our monthly column about video games, and how the way we play is changing
Opinion
A new hunt for ET could well find AI on non-Earthlike worlds
Opinion
Space
Is Pluto a planet or a dwarf? Such labels matter less and less
Opinion
Humans
How our capacity to lie peaks in young adulthood
Opinion
Health
Bionics man offers a taste of our cyborg future
Opinion
Features
Health
Bitter truth: How we’re making fruit and veg less healthy
In an effort to cater to our sweet tooth, food producers are making fruit and veg taste less bitter. The trouble is, that's making them worse for us
Features
Life
Home, sweet exomoon: The new frontier in the search for ET
Features
Life
Nature’s strangest families: Why animals adopt
Features
Culture
Life
How virtual reality will take us deeper into the real world
From an immersion in the cosmos to browsing genomes, virtual reality is set to change everything 鈥� but not in the ways you might think
Culture
Environment
Lions in the Balance: Can hunting save the kings of the jungle?
Culture
快猫短视频’s best summer reading
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: Free energy dreams deliver endless fruitloopery
Futurists agog over wearable fabrics, New Horizons plastic probe, getting a handle on contactless cards, and more
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
Nettling conundrum
Last Word
Choc chip
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Drying dilemma
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Air drumming
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Head space
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Waning woodpile
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Seeds of doubt
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