Life
When it comes to science, do sweat the small stuff
Opinion
This week's magazine
8 August 2015
Issue 3033
On the cover
Editor's picks
Life
What if … We have no free will?
Features
Physics
What if 鈥� We discover we can see the future?
Features
Mind
What if 鈥� The universe is an illusion?
Features
Humans
What if 鈥� We don’t need bodies?
Features
Life
What if 鈥� We all decide that God exists?
Features
Health
What if 鈥� We came from space?
Features
Life
What if鈥� We find ET?
Features
Life
What if 鈥� We learn to talk to animals?
Features
Physics
What if 鈥� Most of reality is hidden?
Features
Health
Fine flavours: The unsuspected talents of your taste buds
Features
Humans
What if 鈥� Intelligence is a dead end?
Features
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Space
Hawaii astronomy meeting glosses over telescope controversy
As 3000 astronomers descend on Hawaii, protesters fighting a planned telescope are arrested on Mauna Kea. Yet the meeting will barely discuss the issue
News
Earth
Obama’s clean power plan will cut emissions 鈥� but is it enough?
News
Earth
UN puts wildlife crime on a par with drug and people trafficking
News
Earth
Brazil’s resettlement of farmers has driven Amazon deforestation
News
Environment
60 Seconds
News
Technology
Facebook unveils drone for beaming internet access from the sky
News
Health
Ebola vaccine success: Race is now on to protect those at risk
News
Earth
UK to build world’s first power plant with negative emissions
News
Mutation alert halts stem cell trial to cure blindness
News
Health
Why music makes us feel good: It releases brain’s painkillers
News
Space
Giant old galaxies, not Milky Ways, are best for life to thrive
News
Earth
Humans accidentally created hidden carbon sink in the desert
News
Earth
Backwards sundial finds true north better than magnets or GPS
News
Health
鈥楧ipstick’ in the brain could predict damage just in time
News
Earth
Secret ecosystem found on hills deep beneath the ocean’s surface
News
Space
#RosettaWatch: Philae lander reveals comet 67P’s fluffy surface
News
The linguistic tricks that hint at how we first created language
News
Earth
Nemo seems to thrive in waters warmed by climate change
News
Health
Mix fish secretions with shrimp shells to make super sunscreen
News
Life
Caterpillar drugs ants to turn them into zombie bodyguards
News
Physics
Earth may have a hairy mane of dark matter flowing around it
News
Technology
Vapourised superglue helps lift fingerprint from gun trigger
News
Earth
Ancient crystals show Earth’s magnetic field switched on early
News
Environment
Zoologger: The giant sea spider that sucks life out of its prey
News
Technology
Cyber attack: How easy is it to take out a smart city?
News
Technology
The cyber-mechanics who protect your car from hackers
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Humans
Software checks if your brain is busy before it interrupts you
News
Opinion
Earth
Calais migrant chaos is a taste of what a warmer world may bring
The disruption at the Channel Tunnel between the UK and France is one of many migration crises which a warmer world will worsen
Opinion
Environment
Killing of lion Cecil should spark ban on US trophy hunt imports
Opinion
Health
Doing CPR is hard for older people so I teach them to use a foot
Opinion
Earth
Cocaine is bad for Colombia’s forests but big farming is worse
Opinion
Features
Physics
What if 鈥� Most of reality is hidden?
Inaccessible dimensions, infinite number of universes forever out of reach 鈥� our ambition to come up with a theory of everything could fall short
Features
Life
What if 鈥� We learn to talk to animals?
Features
Physics
What if 鈥� We discover we can see the future?
Features
Life
What if鈥� We find ET?
Features
Humans
What if 鈥� We don’t need bodies?
Features
Life
What if … We have no free will?
Features
Health
What if 鈥� We came from space?
Features
Humans
What if 鈥� Intelligence is a dead end?
Features
Mind
What if 鈥� The universe is an illusion?
Features
Life
What if 鈥� We all decide that God exists?
Features
Health
Fine flavours: The unsuspected talents of your taste buds
Features
Culture
Regulars
Life
Feedback: as thick as two short planks
Plus bamboozled by plant-based plastic, genetic algorithm breaches code of conduct, hedge trimmer's handy feature, and more
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