This week's magazine
10 October 2015
Issue 3042
On the cover
Editor's picks
Opinion
Physics
General relativity at 100: The missing piece of the jigsaw
Features
Physics
Explore 100 years of general relativity
Features
Physics
General relativity at 100: Still no theory of everything
Features
Physics
How I’m going to photograph a black hole
Features
Physics
General relativity at 100: The paradox of black holes
Features
Earth
Endangered earth: The secret battle to save our soils
Features
Physics
General relativity at 100: Einstein’s witness in the sky
Features
Table of contents
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Expert witness on ‘shaken baby syndrome’ faces misconduct charge
A disciplinary hearing has begun against a pathologist whose research challenges child-abuse assumptions. She is the second doctor to be accused in five years
News
Earth
South Carolina floods are a ‘once in a millennium’ event
News
Health
Nobel Prize for medicine for drugs that have benefited billions
News
Earth
More than half of EU officially bans genetically modified crops
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
As monster El Niño looms, the world rushes to get ready
News
Google Lunar X Prize gets 2017 extension after rocket contract
News
Space
Budget NASA missions will head for asteroids or hellish Venus
News
Earth
UK government could face lawsuit over climate failures
News
Health
Why resurgence of therapy that unearths ‘lost’ memories is risky
News
Environment
Invisibility cloak for heat could help mice vanish from snakes
News
Physics
Neutrino detectors could keep discreet tabs on nuclear reactors
News
Life
Volcanoes plus asteroid might have finished off dinosaurs
News
Health
Drug could kill harmful bacteria but leave benign ones untouched
News
Earth
Megatsunami 170 metres high once smashed into Cape Verde
News
Earth
Wildlife is thriving around Chernobyl since the people left
News
Health
Rebooted pancreas cells could ease type 1 diabetes
News
Health
Foam heart could pump inside you just like the real thing
News
Life
Zoologger: DJ frogs sing like birds, remixing tunes on the hop
News
Earthquake algorithm picks up the brain’s vibrations
News
Life
Plant tricks dung beetles by making its seeds look like dung
News
Environment
Slow cyclists gain advantage from schooling like fish
News
Humans
Musicians’ brains fire symmetrically when they listen to music
News
Life
How to save our digital knowledge for future generations to read
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Life
Speech recognition AI identifies you by voice wherever you are
News
Technology
Undersea robot learns to ferret out the unusual and interesting
News
Opinion
Earth
If Paris climate change talks fail, there’s always Plan C
All is not lost if imminent climate talks fail to strike a deal that puts the world on track to keep warming below 2ËšC
Opinion
Earth
VW scandal: Corporate green claims need a new kind of scrutiny
Opinion
Space
I want to update the Golden Record message on Voyager probes
Opinion
Humans
Go beyond your five senses with my extrasensory jacket
Opinion
Features
Physics
Explore 100 years of general relativity
In a century, Einstein’s theory has revolutionised our picture of the universe. We take a look at the pivotal moments in general relativity since Einstein presented his theory in 1915
Features
Physics
General relativity at 100: Einstein’s witness in the sky
Features
Physics
General relativity at 100: The paradox of black holes
Features
Physics
How I’m going to photograph a black hole
Features
Physics
General relativity at 100: Still no theory of everything
Features
Physics
General relativity at 100: The missing piece of the jigsaw
Features
Earth
Endangered earth: The secret battle to save our soils
Features
Culture
Health
NeuroTribes: How autism has been badly misunderstood
Society’s failure to embrace the idea of neurodiversity and accept people who think differently might be limiting human potential, says a new book
Culture
Life
Strange Tools: What can art tell us about who we are?
Culture
Earth
How fish dodged extinction’s bullet
Culture