Cutting science funding would damage UK economic security
Opinion
This week's magazine
14 November 2015
Issue 3047
On the cover
Editor's picks
Let Australian science shine to create a truly prosperous future
Opinion
Earth
Journeys of a lifetime: Once your blood was dinosaur pee
Features
Health
Is evil a disease? ISIS and the neuroscience of brutality
Features
Space
Journeys of a lifetime: Why to look at a star is to touch it
Features
Space
Journeys of a lifetime: Events in a far galaxy tweak your DNA
Features
Earth
Journeys of a lifetime: To the depths of Earth and back again
Features
Earth
Journeys of a lifetime: A mosasaurus breathes into your stove
Features
Life
Journeys of a lifetime: A sandwich’s energy becomes a scream
Features
Physics
The Higgs mass mystery: Why is everything so light?
Features
Life
Journeys of a lifetime: How your bones began in a star’s core
Features
Life
Journeys of a lifetime: 7 stories of how the cosmos made you
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
UK spending cuts must spare science, our key to prosperity
Research is central to 21st-century prosperity and must be boosted, not butchered, in the upcoming UK spending review, says Royal Society president Paul Nurse
Opinion
Unshackle science to let the US address global problems
Opinion
Let Australian science shine to create a truly prosperous future
Opinion
快猫短视频
Environment
Pope’s call for action on climate change has shifted US views
A representative survey of 900 people in the US reveals that many are more concerned about climate change since the pope issued his call to action
News
Space
Pluto surprises with ice volcanoes and alien weather
News
Earth
ExxonMobil faces inquiry on what it knew about climate change
News
Earth
US oil industry and green lobby together brought down Keystone
News
Environment
60 Seconds
News
Health
Smoking weed is now a human right in Mexico
News
Humans
Russia faces ban from athletics over doping scandal
News
Earth
Carbon levels hit new high and temperature rise soars to 1 掳C
News
Life
Mystery microbes in our gut could be a whole new form of life
News
Space
NASA probe shows how solar burps may have stripped Mars of water
News
Health
Gene editing beat a baby’s leukaemia. Are other cancers next?
News
Health
鈥楧eath clock’ in cells could tell you when you’ll get cancer
News
Environment
Free-diver enlisted to help tag twitchy hammerhead sharks
News
Growing corals turn water more acidic without suffering damage
News
Life
Venomous pseudoscorpions use huge pincers to hitchhike on bats
News
Health
Gut bacteria may affect the success of cancer treatments
News
Health
Microscopic cage for light traps photons but lets fluids through
News
Space
Coming soon: first weather report from super-Venus exoplanet
News
Technology
UK spying rules may drive criminals to use stronger encryption
News
Health
Alzheimer’s drug found to cause harm to mouse brain cells
News
Physics
Hot Jupiters may have formed through planetary billiards
News
Earth
Most of Earth’s mass extinctions caused by鈥� mineral deficiencies
News
Technology
3D print extra bits for old objects to help extend their life
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Humans
Text detective can unmask the secret influencers behind US laws
News
Sponsored
The future of healthcare: Using big data to stay well
News
Opinion
Earth
Those who slam the Paris climate talks are missing the point
Even if a deal to keep warming below 2 掳C is not on the table, the upcoming global climate talks can still be successful, says David Victor
Opinion
Earth
Dangerous climate change is avoidable with the right approach
Opinion
Breakthrough prize billionaire wants scientists to be heroes
Opinion
Cutting science funding would damage UK economic security
Opinion
Features
Life
Journeys of a lifetime: 7 stories of how the cosmos made you
From distant galaxies to deep inside your cells, and a dinosaur鈥檚 breath to your kitchen stove, join us for seven of the most surprising voyages in the universe
Features
Life
Journeys of a lifetime: How your bones began in a star’s core
Features
Earth
Journeys of a lifetime: Once your blood was dinosaur pee
Features
Life
Journeys of a lifetime: A sandwich’s energy becomes a scream
Features
Earth
Journeys of a lifetime: A mosasaurus breathes into your stove
Features
Earth
Journeys of a lifetime: To the depths of Earth and back again
Features
Space
Journeys of a lifetime: Events in a far galaxy tweak your DNA
Features
Space
Journeys of a lifetime: Why to look at a star is to touch it
Features
Physics
The Higgs mass mystery: Why is everything so light?
Features
Health
Is evil a disease? ISIS and the neuroscience of brutality
Features
Culture
Humans
The neuroscience of interrogation: Why torture doesn鈥檛 work
"Enhanced interrogation" may get someone to talk, but there's no evidence that it's the truth. A new book cross-examines the true consequences of torture
Culture
Earth
How the past’s ecological lessons can save Earth’s future
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: Making a hash of drugs legislation
Plus: the quantum nature of cannabis, manning the barricades on gender equality, cetecean midwives for water babies, and more
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