This week's magazine
Editor's picks
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Environment
It’s time we all became eco-warriors for water
News
Humans
The kindness paradox: Why be generous?
Features
Environment
Ocean worlds: Searching for life in the solar system’s seas
Features
Environment
We risk our lives daily to safeguard Virunga National Park
Features
Health
Killer fungi: The health threat that’s creeping up on us
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Table of contents
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Space
IceCube telescope in Antarctica rules out sterile neutrinos
A search for a fourth kind of neutrino, a ghostly particle that could explain dark matter, has turned up empty
News
Earth
World’s longest lake is being depleted of life as waters warm
News
Health
Obamacare has already improved health of low-income Americans
News
Environment
Elusive Arabian sand cat spotted after 10 years’ disappearance
News
60 Seconds
News
US ban on some types of human-animal embryos could be lifted
News
Earth
Plan to replant millions of trees in central England slows down
News
Health
There could already be 40,000 people carrying Zika in the US
News
Health
Parents giving unproven IQ-boosting drugs to kids with Down’s
News
Physics
Physicists look to the future as new particle dream dies
News
Health
Best look yet at how our brain’s sewage system flushes out waste
News
Space
Venus could have been habitable while life evolved on Earth
News
Earth
First evidence of legendary flood reveals China’s origin story
News
Health
Just a few hours’ exercise a week makes your heart grow bigger
News
Humans
Ice age fashion showdown: Neanderthal capes versus human hoodies
News
Physics
Libraries of plastic molecules could store huge amounts of data
News
Health
Counting genetic mutations predicts how soon you’ll get cancer
News
Environment
Mystery of why some sunflowers track the sun across skies solved
News
Environment
Baby monkeys smile in their sleep – more so than human babies
News
Quantum computing race heats up as trapped ions rival microchips
News
Health
Being fat in middle age may shrink your brain’s white matter
News
Environment
Giant honeybees may act like a collective lung to beat the heat
News
Technology
Blood spatter model to help crime scene investigation
News
Technology
Could sex robots and virtual reality treat paedophilia?
News
Technology
How Tesla’s batteries can change the solar power game
News
One Per Cent
News
Technology
AI reads your tweets and spots when you’re being sarcastic
News
Mind
Crystal mimics brain cell to sift through giant piles of data
News
Analysis
Earth
We have to recycle water on a massive scale – this is how we can
The world is running out of drinkable water, and putting a price on the stuff won't work. But we are well on the way to building a circular water economy
News
Humans
School field trips to creationist Ark? Sink that idea right now
News
Health
Beyond drugs: the war on lifestyle disease needs new tactics
News
Health
Gene doping in sport could make the Olympics fairer and safer
News
Humans
Cast into limbo, UK science is confronting Brexit uncertainty
News
Features
Humans
The kindness paradox: Why be generous?
Humans are one of the rare animals to be altruistic. An ancient form of giving holds secrets about why we help one another without any promise of reward
Features
Environment
Ocean worlds: Searching for life in the solar system’s seas
Features
Health
Killer fungi: The health threat that’s creeping up on us
Features
Environment
We risk our lives daily to safeguard Virunga National Park
Features
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: Putin in his place
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This Week’s Letters
Letters
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Those veggie blues
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Clean living
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Offal way to die
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High-flyers
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People-tasting
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