This week's magazine
Editor's picks
News
Health
Collective rather than individual action can beat obesity
News
Humans
We don’t need to lose out to machines, says the man who did
Features
Humans
First words: The surprisingly simple foundation of language
Features
Life
Send an ear: Listening for sounds of life in the solar system
Features
Humans
The appetite genes: Why some of us are born to eat too much
Features
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Environment
Sea stars filmed hunting squid and squabbling over eating it
Snails feast on sea lily faeces in the latest videos from submersibles diving in never-before-explored parts of the ocean
News
Earth
Governments sued over climate change, with banks and firms next
News
Earth
Trump’s budget jettisons ‘irreplaceable’ marine mammals agency
News
Health
Tumour-tracking drug that kills cancer approved in the US
News
60 Seconds
News
Space
New Zealand joins the space race with Electron rocket launch
News
Space
Amazing pictures show cyclones swirling above Jupiter’s poles
News
Health
Boom in human gene editing as 20 CRISPR trials gear up
News
Physics
Game theory says you should charge your friends to borrow things
News
Earth
Nowcasting may help forecast big earthquakes in 53 major cities
News
Health
Is ADHD a sleep disorder? Stimulant drug improves symptoms
News
Technology
Curious AI learns by exploring game worlds and making mistakes
News
Environment
Underwater drones use sound to send snaps of the ocean floor
News
Health
Gene tweak in gut bacteria could turn faeces blue if you’re ill
News
Huge impact could have smashed early Earth into a doughnut shape
News
Earth
Newly-evolved microbes may be breaking down ocean plastics
News
Health
Could cannabis help crack cocaine addicts kick the habit?
News
Space
Strange cosmic radio burst pinned down to giant stellar nursery
News
Environment
Monkey mafia steal your stuff, then sell it back for a cracker
News
Health
Learning to read and write rewires adult brain in six months
News
Space
Saturn’s moons could reassemble after a cosmic smash-up
News
Environment
See-through frog has heart you can see beating through its chest
News
Technology
App lets stadium crowds display giant messages with their phones
News
Environment
Traumatic beetle sex causes rapid evolutionary arms race
News
Life
Floating in microgravity gives bacteria permanent genetic boost
News
Earth
Hot, sleepless nights will get more common with climate change
News
Environment
Tree-climbing goats spit out and disperse valuable argan seeds
News
Technology
Waltzing robot teaches beginners how to dance like a pro
News
Analysis
Health
The drug rebellion fighting big pharma to save the NHS millions
Big pharma makes a killing off deadly diseases. Now people are fighting back, setting up buyers clubs and challenging patents, to curb global drug price gouging
News
Life
How to get scientists and politicians talking the same language
News
Health
Think the UK has a social care crisis now? Just wait until 2025
News
Health
Diseases are global, so it’s time for global emergency response
News
Features
Humans
The appetite genes: Why some of us are born to eat too much
Subtle differences in how we respond to food, driven by our genes, are the true reason we can struggle to keep to the weight we want to be
Features
Life
Send an ear: Listening for sounds of life in the solar system
Features
Humans
First words: The surprisingly simple foundation of language
Features
Humans
We don’t need to lose out to machines, says the man who did
Features
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: Scentless perfumes and houses that last forever
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
This Week’s Letters
Letters
Sleep tight
Last Word
Salvaging Hubble
Last Word
No stone unthrown
Last Word
Human attraction
Last Word
Survival of the fittest
Last Word