How to cut through the noise of a confusing year
Opinion
This week's magazine
19 December 2015
Issue 3052
On the cover
Editor's picks
Technology
The ultimate guide to stacking the dishwasher
Features
Humans
Farting: The questions you’re too embarrassed to ask
Features
Humans
God vs the multiverse: The 2500-year war
Features
Space
Stargazing through the bottom of a glass
Features
Humans
Finding brewtopia: Lager made the 快猫短视频 way
Features
Health
You are what you speak: How your mother tongue shapes you
Features
Humans
Peak beard: Why our love of facial hair is still growing
Features
Humans
Caerphilly does it: Can cheese cause nightmares?
Features
Environment
What snowy owls get up to when the mercury drops
Features
Technology
Fast and furious: Drone racers battle for air supremacy
Features
Environment
Why bird droppings are the enemy of electricity
Features
Environment
Pawful or purrfect? A scientific guide to the best pets
Features
Humans
Why fairy tales are really scary tales
Features
Humans
Tipping point: The trouble with fatuous gratuities
Features
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Earth
What is the Paris climate agreement?
The Paris climate agreement is better than many expected but it is not enough to achieve the stated aim of limiting warming to 2 掳C, let alone 1.5 掳C
News
Earth
Rising seas expected to sink islands near US capital in 50 years
News
Health
Road map of awareness could help us rouse unconscious people
News
Space
Prodigal gas cloud was born in Milky Way and is crashing back in
News
Physics
Experts doubt Google’s claim about its quantum computer’s speed
News
Needle formation lets space rubble sneak up on us
News
Health
Virtual brain surgery could personalise epilepsy treatment
News
Environment
Rudolph’s new enemy: The eagles hunting adult reindeer in Norway
News
Health
*Sad face*: Being happy does not help you live longer
News
Environment
Pandas don’t lack sex drive, they just need to fancy each other
News
Space
Little galaxy’s own stars cast 95 per cent of its oxygen away
News
Physics
Raft made of dust carries water droplets across a sea of oil
News
Environment
Deep sea sharks pig out on beef, lamb and veg we throw away
News
Environment
Drone sniffs the air to map Valley Fever fungus in California
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Earth
Sensors to give early storm warnings to people near deadly lake
News
Health
Bionic eye will send images direct to the brain to restore sight
News
Technology
Soaring holiday drone sales mean regulations need revamping fast
News
Space
No Man’s Sky game promises universe of 18 quintillion planets
News
Health
First results from human young blood rejuvenation trial expected
News
Humans
Matrix-style memory prosthesis set to supercharge human brain
News
Health
CRISPR will make 2016 the year of gene-edited organisms
News
Space
NASA probe to visit Jupiter to look for water and map clouds
News
Your cocktail party cheat sheet for the 2016 US election
News
Earth
Coral reefs in peril as 2016 shapes up to become hottest year
News
Technology
First Hyperloop tests herald air-powered future of transport
News
From Pluto fly-by to head transplants 鈥� the best stories of 2015
News
Sponsored
Doctor, meet my data
News
Sponsored
Doctor, meet my data
News
Opinion
Health
World must get ready now for the next big health threat
After Ebola, a new global body is needed to contain future major disease threats. Will nations manage to unite to keep us safe?
Opinion
Technology
What did the random shopper bot buy on the dark net?
Opinion
Humans
Biggest, smallest, fastest: I test the Guinness World Records
Opinion
Features
Environment
Pawful or purrfect? A scientific guide to the best pets
Our furry (and not so furry) friends bring cheer and companionship聽鈥� but which ones steal the show?
Features
Humans
Why fairy tales are really scary tales
Features
Environment
What snowy owls get up to when the mercury drops
Features
Health
You are what you speak: How your mother tongue shapes you
Features
Humans
Farting: The questions you’re too embarrassed to ask
Features
Technology
Fast and furious: Drone racers battle for air supremacy
Features
Technology
The ultimate guide to stacking the dishwasher
Features
Humans
God vs the multiverse: The 2500-year war
Features
Humans
Peak beard: Why our love of facial hair is still growing
Features
Humans
Caerphilly does it: Can cheese cause nightmares?
Features
Space
Stargazing through the bottom of a glass
Features
Environment
Why bird droppings are the enemy of electricity
Features
Humans
Tipping point: The trouble with fatuous gratuities
Features
Humans
Finding brewtopia: Lager made the 快猫短视频 way
Features
Culture
Earth
Desecration phrasebook: A litany for the Anthropocene
For good or ill, we are remaking Earth. What new words will be needed to describe the planet in the the age of humans?
Culture
Earth
A world of wonders: Exploring The Cabaret of Plants
Culture
Life
Anthropocene Christmas Game: Tweet like it’s 2099
Culture
