This week's magazine
27 May 2017
Issue 3127
On the cover
Editor's picks
News
Technology
Politicians must get a grip on tech if they want a great Britain
News
Technology
Wake-up call: How turbulence could reveal secret nuclear subs
Features
Health
Proof in the pudding: Myth-busting 15 common cooking tips
Features
Physics
The quantum leak that could give rise to dark energy
Features
Technology
The US inventors who helped the RAF win the Battle of Britain
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
Health
Your mind as well as your senses deserves a place at mealtimes
Molecular gastronomy was just for starters. Now cross-sensory dining is all set to warp your perceptions and show the value of neuroscience in cooking
News
Technology
Politicians must get a grip on tech if they want a great Britain
News
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Technology
DeepMind’s AI beats world’s best Go player in latest face-off
The Go-playing artificial intelligence from DeepMind defeated Ke Jie in the first of three matches taking place this week in Wuzhen, China
News
Earth
Water enters the Doomsday vault which is now under repair
News
Health
Trump’s 2018 budget slashes funding from healthcare and science
News
Health
Unprecedented cholera outbreak tears through war-torn Yemen
News
Health
60 Seconds
News
Environment
Three amazing nature areas shortlisted for World Heritage status
News
Earth
EU nations set to wipe out forests and not account for emissions
News
Space
Astronomers scramble as ‘alien megastructure’ star dims again
News
Environment
Our common ancestor with chimps may be from Europe, not Africa
News
Technology
Robotic turtles can be used to detect landmines in the desert
News
Mind
A classic quantum test could reveal the limits of the human mind
News
Humans
The brain starts to eat itself after chronic sleep deprivation
News
Humans
Citizens give up data in blockchain project to improve cities
News
East Africa’s drought threatens iconic wildebeest migration
News
Health
Bioelectric tweak makes flatworms grow a head instead of a tail
News
Earth
Narwhals could help us measure melting glaciers underwater
News
Health
Human blood stem cells grown in the lab for the first time
News
Physics
LIGO could detect gravitational waves’ permanent space-time warp
News
Earth
Rising seas could double the number of severe coastal floods
News
Space
Mouse sperm sent into space produces healthy IVF babies
News
Health
Our brains prefer invented visual information to the real thing
News
Dust reveals giant black holes merging in galactic collisions
News
Technology
AI can doctor videos to put words in the mouths of speakers
News
Health
Flushing fallopian tubes with poppy seed oil boosts fertility
News
Environment
Mass landfills are saving endangered vultures from extinction
News
Life
Bacteria engineered to produce living, full-colour photographs
News
Space
Titan’s riverbeds show a terrain built more like Mars than Earth
News
Earth
Beaver dams keeps streams cool and protect sensitive fish
News
Environment
Hopping miniature parrots suggest how birds first got airborne
News
Sponsored
Skin care gets smart with AI
News
Analysis
Technology
6 technology pledges that should be in every political manifesto
From a digital Geneva Convention to taking down big data firms, these proposals should be required by any political party that wants your vote on 8 June
News
Technology
Three major UK parties respond to our technology manifesto
News
Technology
Why doesn’t the UK government understand technology?
News
Features
Physics
The quantum leak that could give rise to dark energy
The loss of countless tiny drops of energy since the start of the universe might be behind the flood of dark energy accelerating the cosmos’s expansion
Features
Health
Proof in the pudding: Myth-busting 15 common cooking tips
Features
Technology
Wake-up call: How turbulence could reveal secret nuclear subs
Features
Technology
The US inventors who helped the RAF win the Battle of Britain
Features