Earth
We can’t rely on science alone to make us better people
Opinion
This week's magazine
26 September 2015
Issue 3040
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
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Space
Rosettawatch: Comet 67P’s weather revealed as sun melts ice
The Rosetta probe has spotted a field of solid ice in the neck region of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko which turns to vapour when the sun rises
News
Health
World Health Organization wants to know how happy we are
News
Earth
Drought-hit California burns while waiting for El Ni帽o rains
News
Earth
World set to embark on UN sustainable goals to eradicate poverty
News
60 Seconds
News
Health
Fight over Planned Parenthood could shut down the US government
News
Earth
US weapons facility accidentally shipped excess nuclear material
News
Physics
Gravitational-wave detector rebooted to sense clashing stars
News
Health
Virtual human built from more than 5000 slices of a real woman
News
Environment
Apes remember major events in movies, even on a single viewing
News
Earth
Divers return to famous Antikythera wreck to hunt for treasures
News
Health
Humans walk around in our own personal cloud of airborne bugs
News
Physics
Clumps of gold nanoparticles can evolve to carry out computing
News
Health
Bionic pancreas automatically controls diabetics’ blood sugar
News
Life
If viruses transfer wasp genes into butterflies, are they GM?
News
Giraffes spend their evenings humming to each other
News
Earth
How earthquakes can trigger copycat quakes 1000 kilometres away
News
Health
The lies we tell are more convincing when we need to pee
News
Life
Armoured wasps chop off opponents’ heads in brutal fig wars
News
Space
Saturn’s largest moon Titan could have sun-warmed swirling seas
News
Environment
Zoologger: Octopus makes own quicksand to build burrow on seabed
News
Space
Citizen scientists catch cloud of comets orbiting distant star
News
Mind
Brain stimulation can alter our desire to punish wrongdoers
News
Life
Forget the Turing test 鈥� there are better ways of judging AI
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Life
Web-in-a-box delivers a bit of the internet anywhere you want
News
Opinion
Technology
Drones of contention: Hobby fliers on collision course with law
It is a flight of fancy to believe that the inexpert public鈥檚 craze for remote-control craft won鈥檛 spark tougher new rules
Opinion
Life
Teaching good traits: Do character-bolstering projects work?
Opinion
Health
I can use intensive-care data to save people’s lives
Opinion
Health
Gene editing: Bring it on
Opinion
Features
Humans
Race to save lost temple city at risk from its own wealth
Mes Aynak, one of central Asia鈥檚 largest Buddhist ruins, could soon be bulldozed to mine the copper underneath. Can anything save its archaeological riches now?
Features
Humans
Morality 2.0: How manipulating our minds could save the world
Features
Physics
Wonder stuff: Making every material you’ve never heard of
Features
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: A crafty trick that makes dinosaur from chick
Plus giant redwood defeats Wellington, a punny book of log graphs, another earworm, and more
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
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Judgement ball
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