Health
Next-gen microbiome drugs are now on sale 鈥� should you buy them?
News
This week's magazine
4 March 2017
Issue 3115
On the cover
Editor's picks
Space
SpaceX follows Jules Verne 鈥� with one exception
News
Health
Putting you under: When anaesthesia goes wrong
Features
Environment
The opposite birds: What wiped out the ancient rulers of the sky
Features
Health
Anaesthesia: What really happens when the lights go out
Features
Environment
Milking time at the den of deadly snakes
Features
Physics
Cosmic uncertainty: Are there antimatter worlds out there?
Features
Physics
Cosmic uncertainty: Are there really just three dimensions?
Features
Physics
Cosmic uncertainty: Does time go both ways?
Features
Physics
Cosmic uncertainty: Could quantum weirdness be even weirder?
Features
Physics
Cosmic uncertainty: Is the speed of light really constant?
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
快猫短视频
Earth
Atmospheric rivers leave California dried out and then flooded
Weeks of storms have filled California鈥檚 reservoirs. A series of atmospheric river storms is to blame, and the state鈥檚 ageing dams are feeling the strain
News
Health
UTIs could soon be life-threatening without new antibiotics
News
Health
Was Kim Jong-nam killed by VX nerve gas? Doesn鈥檛 look like it
News
Health
Plain packets help smokers quit by killing brand identities
News
Technology
Rebooted Nokia 3310 steals the show at exhibition of mobile tech
News
Earth
60 Seconds
News
Space
SpaceX plans to send two civilians around the moon next year
News
Earth
The EU鈥檚 renewable energy policy is making global warming worse
News
Health
Gene therapy 鈥榗ures鈥� boy of blood disease that affects millions
News
Earth
Traces in rock may be the oldest evidence of life on Earth ever
News
Health
The feeling you get when nails scratch a blackboard has a name
News
Space
How we’re already seeking life on TRAPPIST-1’s rocky planets
News
Health
BPA-free water bottles may contain another harmful chemical
News
Earth
Rock solid evidence of Anthropocene seen in 208 minerals we made
News
Humans
Game theory says publicly shaming cyberattackers could backfire
News
Environment
Morphing drone takes off like a helicopter, flies like a plane
News
Humans
Extinct Neanderthals still control expression of human genes
News
Earth
A loaf of bread emits half a kilo of CO2, mainly from fertiliser
News
Humans
Hiring tool uses behavioural science to stop recruitment bias
News
Health
Try these simple mental tests to see if you’re a good athlete
News
Physics
If an asteroid hit London only 3% of deaths would be from impact
News
Environment
Caterpillars vibrate anuses to send food and shelter alerts
News
Health
Having a cigarette may make your body crave coffee too
News
Mind
Augmented reality lets cars communicate to reduce road rage
News
Health
You should be eating 10 pieces of fruit or veg every day, not 5
News
Snow will melt more slowly in a warmer world 鈥� here’s why
News
Technology
AI beats professional players at Super Smash Bros. video game
News
Environment
Bees learn to play golf and show off how clever they really are
News
Space
Voyager 1 might have seen Enceladus鈥� icy plumes 25 years early
News
Analysis
Health
Next-gen microbiome drugs are now on sale 鈥� should you buy them?
Drugs that alter the microbiome seem to be treating blood pressure and migraine in clinical trials. And thanks to a legal loophole, you can already buy some of them
News
Technology
Dozy drivers pose big dilemma for next step in autonomous cars
News
Space
Pluto is still an ex-planet, no matter what its fans think
News
Technology
Bill Gates’ robot tax alone won’t save jobs: here’s what will
News
Features
Physics
Cosmic uncertainty: Is the speed of light really constant?
The universe's ultimate speed limit seems set in stone. But there's good reason to believe it might once have been faster 鈥� and may still be changing now
Features
Physics
Cosmic uncertainty: Could quantum weirdness be even weirder?
Features
Physics
Cosmic uncertainty: Does time go both ways?
Features
Physics
Cosmic uncertainty: Are there really just three dimensions?
Features
Physics
Cosmic uncertainty: Are there antimatter worlds out there?
Features
Environment
The opposite birds: What wiped out the ancient rulers of the sky
Features
Health
Anaesthesia: What really happens when the lights go out
Features
Health
Putting you under: When anaesthesia goes wrong
Features
Environment
Milking time at the den of deadly snakes
Features
Culture
Technology
Technoaddicts: turn on, touch in, swipe out
Once it was substances, now increasingly it's behaviours 鈥� a new book argues that our gadgets are designed to keep us obsessively scrolling and tapping
Culture
Earth
Volcanoes: Oxford exhibition gives the fiery inside story
Culture
Humans
Unmaking the myths of our gendered minds
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: Hackable dolls could become pint-sized spies
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
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