Health
Forget trying to be normal, we should nurture our diversity
Opinion
This week's magazine
3 October 2015
Issue 3041
On the cover
Editor's picks
Humans
5 building blocks of everyday thinking
Features
Humans
Are your obsessions normal?
Features
Humans
Are the voices in your head normal?
Features
Earth
Fall of fall: The mellow season of autumn is changing forever
Features
Humans
Are your beliefs normal?
Features
Humans
Are your emotions normal?
Features
Physics
How to measure anything 鈥� and fix the foundations of science
Features
Humans
Is your attention span normal?
Features
Humans
Is your memory normal?
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
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Earth
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News
Genes protecting smokers’ health one of many UK Biobank findings
News
DNA-cutting enzymes could slice through gene editing patent spat
News
Salty water seen flowing on Mars, not far from Curiosity rover
News
Floods that hit New York City every 500 years now hit every 24
News
60 Seconds
News
Shell abandons oil exploration in Alaska but stays in the Arctic
News
Environment
Plastic in the food chain: Artificial debris found in fish
News
Space
Multiverses-in-a-box let us simulate the cosmos before we see it
News
Ears of early humans could hear frequencies used in speech
News
Technology
VW emissions fraud tallies with Europe’s pollution overshoots
News
How did Volkswagen cheat in tests and can it fix affected cars?
News
Deepest earthquakes seem to be seasonal but we don’t know why
News
Life
Moss on Mars? Plant species being cultivated for astronaut drugs
News
Crowds beat computers in answer to Wikipedia-sized maths problem
News
Why lack of sleep makes us emotionally distracted by everything
News
How the local yeasts can affect the flavour and aroma of wine
News
Zoologger: The only raptor known to hunt in cooperative packs
News
Mind
Paralysed man uses mind control to walk again
News
Rosettawatch: Onion layers prove 67P is a slow-mo comet mash-up
News
America’s oldest decapitated head reveals strange burial ritual
News
Invasive herb could hamper East Africa’s fight against malaria
News
Surgical device repairs damaged still-beating heart with glue
News
Physics of falling says professional athletes are running wrong
News
Earth
Earthquake artificial intelligence knows where damage is worst
News
Technology
Why US talks will not be enough to make China ditch cyberwar
News
Technology
Painting bot follows your eyes to create art
News
Life
Activist bots recruit humans to their cause on Twitter
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Opinion
Health
Pay people a living wage and watch them get healthier
Poverty pay risks the mental and physical health of whole communities
Opinion
Technology
As tech threatens jobs, we must test a universal basic income
Opinion
Health
Why I study 80-year-old smokers
Opinion
Physics
Probability is as useful to physics as flat-Earth theory
Opinion
Features
Humans
Are your beliefs normal?
You may think all you hold true is within the realms of possibility, but as we all have at least one delusion, chances are some of your beliefs are impossible
Features
Humans
Is your memory normal?
Features
Humans
Is your attention span normal?
Features
Humans
Are your emotions normal?
Features
Humans
5 building blocks of everyday thinking
Features
Humans
Are your obsessions normal?
Features
Humans
Are the voices in your head normal?
Features
Physics
How to measure anything 鈥� and fix the foundations of science
Features
Earth
Fall of fall: The mellow season of autumn is changing forever
Features
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: Rap’s time lord defends clockmaking Texas teen
Plus misadventure at the tech conference, Handeloh hallucinations point to Swiss sex guru, crab beast loose on the heath, and more
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