This week's magazine
Editor's picks
News
Humans
Post Brexit, experts need to reassert their value to society
News
Health
Ark of the immortals: The future-proof plan to freeze out death
Features
Technology
Hot ice: The invisible threat making planes fall out of the sky
Features
Sponsored
Football on the brain
Features
Humans
I want to put your death on ice so that you can live again
Features
Humans
Some people choose to be frozen at death. Here’s how it happens
Features
Health
Filthy Romans: Dirty secrets of the bath-obsessed ancients
Features
Humans
Why I signed up to have my head cryogenically frozen
Features
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Juno probe set to arrive at Jupiter five years after launch
NASA’s Juno spacecraft is due to arrive in the early hours of next Tuesday, UK time. It is the first dedicated explorer of the gas giant in over a decade
News
Health
Supreme Court strikes down abortion restrictions in Texas
News
Space
China plans for space station with most powerful rocket launch
News
Space
Hubble spots a new long-lived storm raging on Neptune
News
Health
60 Seconds
News
Health
Zika vaccine protects mice, but may increase risk of dengue
News
Earth
Huge newfound deposit of helium will keep MRI scanners running
News
Space
NASA approves five more years for Hubble Space Telescope
News
Health
New life form discovered in saliva is linked to human disease
News
Humans
Princess Leia brainwaves may help you learn in your sleep
News
Life
Elderly monkeys choose to have fewer friends – just like us
News
Humans
People who meditate are more aware of their unconscious brain
News
Life
Who needs water? Dry volcanic vents more alive than wet soil
News
Space
I tried out being a space trucker in a Dream Chaser mini-shuttle
News
Earth
Could a vast rubber boom clean up tonnes of ocean plastic?
News
Physics
Nano-camera lens reveals the hidden mirror world of molecules
News
Environment
Watch a baby sea turtle being hypnotised so we can weigh it
News
Health
Tourists pick up antibiotic-resistance genes in just two days
News
Space
Pluto must have liquid ocean or it’d look like an overripe peach
News
Environment
Beautifully preserved feathers belonged to tiny flying dinosaurs
News
Space
Strange ‘dark hydrogen’ may exist deep inside giant gas planets
News
Technology
Shampoo bottles get nano-makeover to squeeze out every drop
News
Life
Electric fields could help us wage war on destructive feral pigs
News
Technology
Hear! Here! Headphones will now help you navigate the world
News
Earth
IKEA of energy delivers clean, green solar power-plant in a box
News
Technology
AI just got a big boost in its ability to understand the news
News
One Per Cent
News
Technology
Beware the Brexit bots: The Twitter spam out to swing your vote
News
Analysis
Environment
When is an animal a person? Neuroscience tries to set the rules
Do chimps deserve legal rights? It’s a question that advances in neuroscience mean we can no longer ignore
News
Humans
Angry scientists must fight to pick up the pieces after Brexit
News
Environment
Stop vets offering homeopathy – placebo doesn’t work for pets
News
Health
Male infertility cure will be gateway to editing our kids’ genes
News
Features
Sponsored
Football on the brain
What sets top footballers apart from their peers? Strength and speed certainly matter, but evidence suggests the real difference is in the players' minds
Features
Health
Ark of the immortals: The future-proof plan to freeze out death
Features
Humans
Some people choose to be frozen at death. Here’s how it happens
Features
Humans
Why I signed up to have my head cryogenically frozen
Features
Humans
I want to put your death on ice so that you can live again
Features
Health
Filthy Romans: Dirty secrets of the bath-obsessed ancients
Features
Technology
Hot ice: The invisible threat making planes fall out of the sky
Features
Culture
Technology
How Alan Turing found machine thinking in the human mind
Turing's youthful bid for fame proved a great mathematician wrong – and accidentally created the modern computer
Culture
Technology
Ancient arts trump game-playing in virtual-reality documentaries
Culture
Earth
Face to face in the Arctic with a terrifying new sublime
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: Friendly giant gives Prince Charles advice on aliens
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
This Week’s Letters
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