This week's magazine
24 October 2015
Issue 3044
Editor's picks
Table of contents
Leaders
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Space
Russia starts moon base collaboration with European Space Agency
The ESA has announced intentions to collaborate with Russia in making a settlement on the moon, modelled after the International Space Station
Earth
Carbon nanotubes found in children’s lungs for the first time
Earth
Canada’s new government heralds freedom of speech for scientists
Health
Is the UN about to recommend decriminalisation of all drugs?
Environment
60 Seconds
Health
World Health Organization may approve first malaria vaccine
Earth
Slow typhoon Koppu to drop one metre of rain on the Philippines
Life
Inside GCHQ: Is the secret agency misusing Alan Turing’s legacy?
Humans
First domestication of dogs took place in Asia, not Europe
Technology
Super-dark chameleon material shifts colour to boost solar power
Earth
Life may have begun 300 million years earlier than we thought
Health
Should babies be given solids earlier to prevent food allergies?
Earth
Climate models may be wrong as fires cancel forest carbon sinks
Technology
Footage of balloons bursting reveals best way to break
Life
Sauropod dinosaur may have whipped its tail like Indiana Jones
Life
Plants spike nectar with caffeine and give bees a buzz
Space
Icy plains and snakeskin terrain among Pluto’s lingering puzzles
Life
New species of giant tortoise brings Galapagos tally to eleven
Health
Babies better than adults at knowing where they’re being touched
Health
3D printed teeth to keep your mouth free of bacteria
Health
Schizophrenia and inflammation link could lead to new treatments
Sponsored
Power to the patients
Life
Inside the massive plan to track the lives of 10,000 New Yorkers
Technology
One Per Cent
Humans
What will it take for humans to take advice from a robot?
Opinion
Health
Health inequality kills – and now is the time to close the gap
Overcoming the health gaps that kill and distort lives globally will be tough, but we must try, says the new head of the World Medical Association
Earth
Australian rice to the rescue as Asian staple is threatened
Life
Too much stuff: What should we keep to show future generations?
Features
Physics
Could cosmic megastructures be intruders from another world?
On a large scale the cosmos should be plain, but it’s not. Windows into other dimensions could explain mysterious objects billions of light years across
Earth
How chemical weapons from the first world war never went away
Health
Deep brain stimulation: A wonder treatment pushed too far?
Culture
Life
How a creationist instinct stops us seeing evolution everywhere
Free-market evangelism spoils an otherwise good book, which attempts to extend the theory of evolution beyond biology to human culture and institutions
Life
What To Think About Machines That Think gets you thinking
Earth
How the matsutake mushroom lets us balance ecology and economics
Regulars
Feedback: dogs tagged by canine facial recognition
Hairdressing degree hopes cut short, a word for emailed mistakes, sex toy suit fails to climax, thief steals the show at tech conference, and more