This week's magazine
7 January 2017
Issue 3107
On the cover
Editor's picks
News
Health
Moral dilemma: should we reshape society because we can?
News
Life
My year on Mars: Frontier life of a space doctor
Features
Life
Grow with the flow: How electricity kicks life into shape
Features
Technology
Give your car a conscience: Why driverless cars need morals
Features
Physics
Antigravity: Discovering if antimatter falls upwards
Features
Table of contents
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Technology
Amazon resists warrants for Echo data in Arkansas murder case
Prosecutors in Arkansas have served Amazon warrants for data collected by one of its Echo home assistant devices in relation to a murder investigation
News
Environment
There are five times more urban foxes in England than we thought
News
Earth
Largest lake in southern Europe under threat from 鈥渆co-resort鈥
News
Health
Australia bans non-prescription codeine to fight opioid crisis
News
Environment
China pledges to shut ivory trade down by end of 2017
News
Health
60 Seconds
News
Environment
Sustainable tuna fishing is bad for climate 鈥 here’s why
News
Health
鈥楶sychedelic sanctuary鈥 will help drug users get over bad trips
News
Health
Simple blood test can detect genetic diseases early in pregnancy
News
Health
False memory helps us think but we can’t do it when we’re tired
News
Physics
First test of rival to Einstein’s gravity kills off dark matter
News
Earth
Molten iron river discovered speeding beneath Russia and Canada
News
Health
Computer uses facial cues to spot if people have autism
News
Physics
Physicists can’t agree on what the quantum world looks like
News
Space
Mars should have loads more water 鈥 so where has it all gone?
News
Environment
Orcas seen hunting and killing rare whales for the first time
News
Technology
Racing robot cars will help AI learn to adapt to the real world
News
Humans
Woman hit by lightning loses synaesthesia 鈥 but then it returns
News
Environment
Drones inspired by insects could keep flying even when damaged
News
Physics
Antimatter atom trapped and measured with a laser for first time
News
Technology
Your walk could be a password that connects devices on your body
News
Environment
Ants craft tiny sponges to dip into honey and carry it home
News
Earth
Baby turtles leave behind fleeting oases on beach dune deserts
News
Health
Becoming a mother may change the brain to read baby’s mind
News
Health
Tiny nanoelectrodes record brain’s activity without damaging it
News
Selfish black holes may be killing host galaxies by stealing gas
News
Environment
Invasive parakeets muscle in on native bird鈥檚 nests in Israel
News
Physics
Nanocrystal night-vision specs will let you see in infrared
News
Analysis
Health
A cure for ageing is near but you probably can’t afford it
The race is on to develop anti-ageing treatments, but will they really work? And if they do, will only the rich be to defy the ravages of time?
News
Health
If your smartphone is keeping you up at night, give it a rest
News
Environment
Canadians are angry about their national bird, but they鈥檙e wrong
News
Health
How to make even your toughest new year’s resolutions stick
News
Features
Physics
Antigravity: Discovering if antimatter falls upwards
If anything fell upwards, it would rewrite physics textbooks. Amazingly fiddly experiments to test whether antimatter can do just this are kicking off
Features
Life
Grow with the flow: How electricity kicks life into shape
Features
Technology
Give your car a conscience: Why driverless cars need morals
Features
Life
My year on Mars: Frontier life of a space doctor
Features