Health
Keep antibiotics useful: A new year’s resolution for all of us
Opinion
This week's magazine
2 January 2016
Issue 3054
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
Leaders
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Health
Halting march of Zika virus is health priority for 2016
The virus, which is linked to brain damage in unborn babies, spread rapidly in the Americas in 2015. Global health agencies are hoping they can thwart it next year
News
Earth
Learning to live with floods will be key to UK policy review
News
Health
US drops lifetime ban on gay men donating blood
News
Earth
Europe’s oldest lake faces destruction to make way for tourists
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
El Ni帽o and a polar vortex behind deadly US tornadoes
News
Space
SpaceX rocket is first to put satellites in orbit and land again
News
Environment
Fences put up to stop refugees in Europe are killing animals
News
Health
Ovary freezing offers a drug-free way to tame menopause
News
New quantum record as ball of atoms ends up in two spots at once
News
Earth
Polar wildlife under threat as ice melts and makes seas brighter
News
Physics
Dark matter’s true face could be unmasked by pairs of dead stars
News
Health
Four genes discovered that will help you live beyond 100
News
Humans
New species of human may have shared our caves 鈥� and beds
News
Environment
Sharks seen hunting and killing a whale for the first time
News
Life
3 billion-year-old fossils show early microbes lived in cavities
News
Life
Two missions face off to seek life in icy seas of Enceladus
News
Physics
Physicists struggle to squeeze new particles from the LHC
News
Earthquake detectors pick up wartime explosions and helicopters
News
Humans
Eating when we should be sleeping may play havoc with our brains
News
Health
Controversial sleeping pill helps mice recover from strokes
News
Environment
Penguins filmed in epic underwater fight stealing a large squid
News
Technology
How 2016’s war on encryption will change your way of life
News
Technology
Hate exams? Now a computer聽can grade you by watching聽you聽learn
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Opinion
Technology
The ‘caring’ robots that are only fit for termination
鈥楾is the season to rage at a computer down a phone line. Jeff Hecht gets angry about lack of progress in automated customer care voice recognition technology
Opinion
Health
New vaping rules shouldn’t drag down the whole industry
Opinion
Earth
Paris is a pragmatic climate deal, even if it is 25 years late
Opinion
Health
Show me you’re there: Ethical dilemmas of minimal consciousness
Opinion
Features
Physics
Can burping black holes reveal the true fabric of the universe?
If mysterious radio bursts from space are hints from exploding black holes, we could be seeing the quantum source of gravity for the first time
Features
Health
Mining the hidden treasure of the world’s unknown bacteria
Features
Humans
Self-mastery can be yours with three pillars of emotional wisdom
Features
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: IBM feels the heat over hairdryer hacking campaign
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
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