Health
Lyme disease is set to explode and we still don鈥檛 have a vaccine
News
This week's magazine
1 April 2017
Issue 3119
On the cover
Editor's picks
Mind
Philosophers of knowledge, your time has come
News
Humans
Inside knowledge: The maximum any one person can ever know
Features
Humans
Inside knowledge: Is information the only thing that exists?
Features
Humans
Inside knowledge: Why knowing thyself is the hardest thing
Features
Humans
Inside knowledge: What’s really going on in the minds of animals
Features
Environment
India’s poacher hunter on how he busts wildlife criminals
Features
Humans
Inside knowledge: Why we’ll never know everything
Features
Humans
Inside knowledge: How to tell truth from lies
Features
Humans
Inside knowledge: What wisdom will live on once we’re gone
Features
Humans
Inside knowledge: What makes scientific knowledge special
Features
Humans
Inside knowledge: Why we like to know useless stuff
Features
Humans
Inside knowledge: What separates fact from belief
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
快猫短视频
Earth
Western demand for goods from China is killing 100,000 a year
Nearly a quarter of premature deaths from air pollution worldwide happen in countries that manufacture goods for export
News
Space
SpaceX test-fires engines ahead of rocket re-launch
News
Health
Fight against patent for hepatitis C drug that can cost 鈧�55,000
News
Technology
Why breaking encryption is a bad idea that could never work
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
Trump signs executive order to reverse Obama鈥檚 climate policies
News
Technology
US energy systems at the mercy of cyberattack, warns report
News
Earth
Shock mass coral die-off in Asia sounds alarm for world鈥檚 reefs
News
Health
Exclusive: menopausal women become pregnant with their own eggs
News
Space
The coldest place in the universe marks a double stellar grave
News
Environment
Mice lived with us 15,000 years ago even before farming took off
News
Technology
Bias test to prevent algorithms discriminating unfairly
News
Physics
Stray supermassive black hole flung away by gravitational waves
News
Health
Mini reproductive organs in a dish mimic 28-day menstrual cycle
News
Health
Diabetes drug could be the first to reverse the disease
News
Health
A nuclear ghost town in Japan welcomes back residents this week
News
Mind
MRI brain scans train machines to see the world more like us
News
Physics
Oddball star could be home to long-sought superheavy elements
News
Humans
Pay crash expected in online gig economy as millions seek work
News
Health
Best evidence yet that hypnotised people aren’t faking it
News
Technology
Virtual lemonade sends colour and taste to a glass of water
News
Space
Enigmatic plumes from Saturn鈥檚 moon caused by cosmic collision
News
Life
Edited live vaccine could stop harmful polio outbreaks
News
Health
Chronic pain and depression are linked by brain gene changes
News
Physics
Electrified sand could explain Titan鈥檚 odd backward-facing dunes
News
Humans
Maths explains how pedestrians avoid bumping into one another
News
Mind
Phone learns to send app notifications only when you want them
News
Environment
Female fish with bigger brains choose better mates
News
Sponsored
At the cutting edge
News
Analysis
Health
Lyme disease is set to explode and we still don鈥檛 have a vaccine
A new prediction says 2017 and 2018 will see major Lyme disease outbreaks in new areas. This could lead to lifelong health consequences, so where's the vaccine?
News
What hope for a deal for UK-EU science in Brexit negotiations?
News
Technology
Robots are stronger, faster, more durable鈥� and hackable
News
Humans
How free speech can become censorship 鈥� and how to solve it
News
Features
Humans
Inside knowledge: What separates fact from belief
It's midday, and you're looking at a clock that says 12:00. But it's not so easy to say whether you really know the time 鈥� or just believe it
Features
Humans
Inside knowledge: Why we like to know useless stuff
Features
Humans
Inside knowledge: What makes scientific knowledge special
Features
Humans
Inside knowledge: What wisdom will live on once we’re gone
Features
Humans
Inside knowledge: How to tell truth from lies
Features
Humans
Inside knowledge: What’s really going on in the minds of animals
Features
Humans
Inside knowledge: Why we’ll never know everything
Features
Humans
Inside knowledge: The maximum any one person can ever know
Features
Humans
Inside knowledge: Why knowing thyself is the hardest thing
Features
Humans
Inside knowledge: Is information the only thing that exists?
Features
Environment
India’s poacher hunter on how he busts wildlife criminals
Features
Culture
Mind
Pixel-perfect play confronts the reality of immersive therapy
Ugly Lies The Bone, which makes its debut at the National Theatre, conjures up spectacular landscapes in its exploration of virtual reality exposure therapy
Culture
Life
Exploring the hidden politics of the quest to live forever
Culture
Space opera is taking humanity to its limits
Culture
