Environment
Why a neonicotinoid ban isn’t enough to protect the environment
News
This week's magazine
22 April 2017
Issue 3122
On the cover
Editor's picks
Humans
Talk of a ‘localised nuclear conflict’ is ignorant and dangerous
News
Humans
Your true self: How your personality changes throughout life
Features
Humans
Your true self: The future is a foreign person
Features
Life
The heretical passion of the man who first described Parkinson’s
Features
Environment
Lazy fit animals: How some beasts get the gain without the pain
Features
Humans
Your true self: Why it鈥檚 morals that make the human
Features
Earth
Rocks of ages: How meteorites reveal the solar system’s history
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
快猫短视频
Space
Distant DeeDee could be a new dwarf planet
New observations of an object beyond Neptune show it could be big enough to be considered a world in the same class as Pluto and Ceres
News
Earth
Drone footage of coal dust leak on beaches may be overblown
News
Earth
California鈥檚 wet year eases drought but many still lack water
News
Health
More than 8 million people in the US have mental health problems
News
Environment agency chief says US should exit Paris climate deal
News
Life
60 Seconds
News
Environment
Zika mosquito is spreading worldwide but WHO wants to stop it
News
Space
Satellite swarms could increase space junk risk by 50 per cent
News
Physics
Cassini finds final ingredient for alien life in Enceladus鈥檚 sea
News
Health
Psychedelic drug ayahuasca improves hard-to-treat depression
News
Health
Virtual syringe lets surgeons practise piercing skin and muscle
News
Health
Start-up uses biometrics to tailor music for good night鈥檚 sleep
News
Environment
Soldier ants carry comrades wounded in raids back to base
News
Environment
Odds that Tasmanian tigers are still alive are 1 in 1.6 trillion
News
Physics
Quantum effects cloak impossible singularities with black holes
News
Space
EVE Online gamers will seek real exoplanets in virtual universe
News
Life
Entire nervous system of an animal recorded for the first time
News
Health
Unprotected sex may disrupt the microbiome in vagina
News
Environment
Gene editing opens doors to seedless fruit with no need for bees
News
Health
Creative people physically see and process the world differently
News
Technology
Drone maps mines to explore unsafe caverns and seek out minerals
News
Health
4D printing makes objects that assemble themselves when heated
News
Physics
Physics of shoelaces shows why they come undone when you run
News
Humans
Robot volleyball machine helps Japan team practise attacks
News
Space
Mars’s atmosphere hosts metal layers that shouldn’t exist
News
Health
Fast CRISPR test easily detects Zika and antibiotic resistance
News
Environment
Sea urchin emits a cloud of venomous jaws to deter predators
News
Space
Water telescope uses gamma rays to track new kind of pulsar
News
Humans
Oldest tooth filling was made by an Ice Age dentist in Italy
News
Analysis
Environment
Why a neonicotinoid ban isn’t enough to protect the environment
Neurotoxic pesticides hurt more than just bees, and they have spread throughout the environment. A ban is a good thing, but it could create another problem
News
Life
Marchers, raise your banners for the tortoise pace of progress
News
Earth
It鈥檚 not too late to save Great Barrier Reef from politicians
News
Features
Humans
Your true self: How your personality changes throughout life
You are not the person you were as a child, or even last year. The discovery that our characters change is unnerving, but embrace it and it can be empowering
Features
Humans
Your true self: The future is a foreign person
Features
Humans
Your true self: Why it鈥檚 morals that make the human
Features
Environment
Lazy fit animals: How some beasts get the gain without the pain
Features
Earth
Rocks of ages: How meteorites reveal the solar system’s history
Features
Life
The heretical passion of the man who first described Parkinson’s
Features
