Humans
Critical thinking is needed throughout life, not just in science
Opinion
This week's magazine
12 December 2015
Issue 3051
Editor's picks
Technology
How your private emails can spread all over the world
Features
Health
How to outsmart your irrational brain
Features
Earth
How you can make the greenest life choices
Features
Health
How to change your genes by changing your lifestyle
Features
Humans
How not to get duped by coincidences
Features
Humans
How to get rich with maths
Features
Humans
How to win at game theory
Features
Health
How you can harness the placebo effect
Features
Humans
Why you shouldn’t believe many of the numbers you read
Features
Earth
Frozen kingdom: The lost world under Antarctica’s ice
Features
Table of contents
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Space
Mars moisture-farming mission gets approval for 2018 launch
An instrument that will collect and test water on Mars is to launch on the 2018 ExoMars mission. If it works, it could provide water for future crewed missions
News
Space
Japanese Akatsuki probe enters Venus orbit after inspired hack
News
Earth
2015 to see the first drop in fossil fuel emissions as GDP grows
News
Earth
Is climate change behind the storm that flooded parts of the UK?
News
60 Seconds
News
Physics
IBM to develop hardware to wipe out errors in quantum computing
News
Health
Suicide is one of the biggest preventable killers of new mums
News
Environment
Resistance to last-resort antibiotic has now spread across globe
News
Health
One man’s race to edit muscular dystrophy gene for friend’s son
News
Environment
Orcas seen in unique group ambush-and-kill attack on dolphins
News
Physics
Tiny dark matter stars would harbour particles that act as one
News
Space
Dwarf planet Ceres looks like an asteroid but acts like a comet
News
Earth
Hunt is on for world鈥檚 deepest caves more than 2km underground
News
Physics
Pathfinder blasts off to look for Einstein’s gravitational waves
News
Environment
Why one lake contains more than 1000 species of the same fish
News
Earth
Birds prefer to eat at outdoor cafes with slow plate-clearing
News
Earth
Northern Lights now appear in central Europe and much of US
News
Life
Pairs of habitable worlds could throw microbes at each other
News
Space
Black holes have a size limit 鈥� of 50 billion suns
News
Physics
Laser camera can track hidden moving objects around corners
News
Health
Drug combo halves the time needed to cure resistant TB
News
Health
Obese men found to make sperm with thousands of modified genes
News
Life
On-demand workers unite online to fight Uber and the gig economy
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Life
Super-literate software reads and comprehends better than humans
News
Opinion
Health
For safer sex work we should drop the ban on prostitution
As a proposed bill to decriminalise prostitution in Scotland is debated, Clare Wilson argues the evidence shows it's the only way to ensure sex workers' safety
Opinion
Technology
Act now to rebuild trust in the code controlling everyday stuff
Opinion
Health
Sisters of people with autism may help us understand condition
Opinion
Technology
I’m going to make Facebook’s AI predict what happens in videos
Opinion
Features
Health
How to outsmart your irrational brain
Evolution has built bias into our brains 鈥� here are the best ways to overrule your instincts and make better decisions about everything
Features
Humans
Why you shouldn’t believe many of the numbers you read
Features
Health
How you can harness the placebo effect
Features
Humans
How to get rich with maths
Features
Humans
How not to get duped by coincidences
Features
Humans
How to win at game theory
Features
Earth
How you can make the greenest life choices
Features
Technology
How your private emails can spread all over the world
Features
Health
How to change your genes by changing your lifestyle
Features
Earth
Frozen kingdom: The lost world under Antarctica’s ice
Features
Culture
Humans
Time to rethink what makes humans special
How does language add meaning? Has culture shaped our genes? Two books, The Secret of Our Success and The Crucible of Language, show old ideas fading away
Culture
Physics
Painting by numbers with the design book Mathematics and Art
Culture
Earth
Geoengineering our way out of the climate mess
Culture
