This week's magazine
4 February 2017
Issue 3111
Editor's picks
News
Speak up for science, however you can
News
Physics
Essence of reality: Hunting the universe’s most basic ingredient
Features
Health
Sibling heroes from the dawn of antibiotics
Features
Environment
The great extermination: How New Zealand will end alien species
Features
Physics
One time or another: Our best 5 theories of the fourth dimension
Features
Health
Spotless mind: Manipulating the brain to rewrite memories
Features
Table of contents
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Humans
Trump’s travel ban is already stopping scientific collaboration
¿ìè¶ÌÊÓÆµs inside and outside the US have had their plans disrupted by Donald Trump’s travel restrictions, and some fear it could lead to a brain drain
News
Higher unemployment linked to more shootings at schools
News
Environment
Yellow fever outbreak is killing off rare monkeys in Brazil
News
Environment
Antibiotic resistance spreads from farms to people in China
News
Earth
60 Seconds
News
Technology
AI just won a poker tournament against professional players
News
Environment
Goat plague wipes out 10 per cent of endangered antelopes
News
Health
Clinic claims it has used stem cells to treat Down’s syndrome
News
Physics
World’s first time crystals cooked up using new recipe
News
Environment
Chimps beat up, murder and then cannibalise their former tyrant
News
Ant choosiness reveals they all have different personalities
News
Technology
AI tracks your every move and tells your boss if you’re slacking
News
Health
Completely paralysed people use thoughts to say they are happy
News
Technology
Voice-checking device stops hackers hijacking your Siri or Alexa
News
Earth
Planet Earth makes its own water from scratch deep in the mantle
News
Technology
AI agony aunt learns to dole out relationship advice online
News
Space
Water spotted in the atmosphere of nearby hot Jupiter exoplanet
News
Humans
Memories can be disconnected – and it could help those with PTSD
News
Health
How LSD affects the brain and creates its trippy effect
News
Physics
Plasma tidal wave may tell us if black holes destroy information
News
Health
Gene editing has saved the lives of two children with leukaemia
News
Environment
New hermit crab has candy-stick legs and a giant spoon-like claw
News
Humans
The folds in your brain may be linked to how neurotic you are
News
Physics
Metallic hydrogen finally made in lab at mind-boggling pressure
News
Life
Giant flying reptile was top predator like a winged T. rex
News
Physics
Vacuum transfer advance will help redefine kilogram next year
News
Life
Parasite turns wasp into zombie then drills through its head
News
Analysis
Earth
Wood-burners: London air pollution is just tip of the iceberg
Sold as an eco-friendly way to heat our homes, wood-burning stoves might actually be a disaster for their owners’ health and for the climate
News
Humans
A painful reminder for Donald Trump of why torture is pointless
News
Humans
More empathy isn’t the right prescription to heal our planet
News
Earth
US scientists can look to Canada for ways to fight a crackdown
News
Features
Physics
Essence of reality: Hunting the universe’s most basic ingredient
Drill down past molecules, atoms, and fundamental particles and where do you end up? We might finally be about to find out
Features
Physics
One time or another: Our best 5 theories of the fourth dimension
Features
Environment
The great extermination: How New Zealand will end alien species
Features
Health
Spotless mind: Manipulating the brain to rewrite memories
Features
Health
Sibling heroes from the dawn of antibiotics
Features
Culture
Environment
London show confirms the natural world is dead. Good riddance
A Wellcome Collection exhibition demonstrates why the idea of nature as separate to our own world deserves to go into the history books – or at least a museum
Culture
Earth
The video installation that makes us swim in our own mess
Culture