Earth
Fighting climate change could trigger a massive financial crash
News
This week's magazine
8 July 2017
Issue 3133
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
Nice science, but don’t forget about the ethics
News
Humans
The ethics issue: Should we make everyone ‘normal’?
Features
Humans
The ethics issue: Should we impose population controls?
Features
Space
Premier exoplanet hunter on finding the first alien world
Features
Life
The ethics issue: Should we give robots the right to kill?
Features
Life
The ethics issue: Should we colonise other planets?
Features
Earth
The ethics issue: Should we geoengineer the planet?
Features
Environment
The ethics issue: Should we let synthetic life forms loose?
Features
Environment
The ethics issue: Should we give other animals rights?
Features
Life
The ethics issue: Should we stop doing science?
Features
Life
The ethics issue: Should we abandon privacy online?
Features
Earth
How Aboriginal knowledge can help the world combat wildfires
Features
Life
The ethics issue: Should we edit our children’s genomes?
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
快猫短视频
Health
San Francisco is first US city to ban flavoured tobacco products
Menthol cigarettes are disproportionately smoked by black and gay smokers in California, and some hope banning flavoured tobacco will protect these groups
News
Physics
North Korea claims test of an intercontinental ballistic missile
News
Health
Google DeepMind鈥檚 NHS data deal ‘failed to comply’ with law
News
Space
Rocket failure may delay China鈥檚 space station and moon missions
News
Earth
60 Seconds
News
Health
UK National Health Service should do more to exploit genomics
News
Health
Aid shipments aren’t enough to stop Yemen’s cholera epidemic
News
Environment
Strongest evidence yet that neonicotinoids are killing bees
News
Health
Using light to reset the body clock can treat brain disorders
News
Space
Sun鈥檚 gravity could power interstellar video streaming
News
Technology
UK’s first public autonomous taxi trial to begin soon
News
Humans
We may have mated with Neanderthals more than 219,000 years ago
News
Health
Cancer vaccines could prime our own bodies to fight tumours
News
Technology
Synthetic fingerprints make plastic particles tiny security keys
News
Technology
Peering inside an AI’s brain will help us trust its decisions
News
Environment
鈥楳issing link鈥� whale could filter feed and hunt larger prey
News
Health
Children who sleep less may age faster at a cellular level
News
Life
Gecko-inspired robot has grippers that could clean up space junk
News
Technology
Artificially intelligent painters invent new styles of art
News
Environment
Birds play sick jungle beat with drumsticks they make themselves
News
Environment
Cuckoos mimic the sound of musk hogs to avoid being eaten
News
Environment
Our young moon鈥檚 supersonic winds made waves in its magma ocean
News
Earth
Wildfires鈥� ‘killer haze’ tracked with Twitter as it spreads
News
Health
People with higher IQs are more likely to live to their 80s
News
Physics
Protons are lighter than thought, which may solve a big puzzle
News
Physics
It鈥檚 not you 鈥� solving a Rubik鈥檚 cube quickly is officially hard
News
Health
Old brains can鈥檛 hear similar sounds but a drug can change that
News
Health
The way we run protects our upper bodies but our legs suffer
News
Analysis
Earth
Fighting climate change could trigger a massive financial crash
The risks of global warming go far beyond the physical. If we don鈥檛 start preparing for the transition to a low-carbon economy we鈥檙e in for an incredibly bumpy ride
News
Health
Women need a rosy outlook? Then give us reason to be optimistic
News
Earth
Trump’s wise monkey environment plan: See no evil, hear no evil
News
Technology
Google鈥檚 鈧�2.4bn fine is small change – the EU has bigger plans
News
Features
Environment
The ethics issue: Should we give other animals rights?
Minimising the suffering of other life forms is a laudable goal 鈥� but there's also human well-being to consider
Features
Life
The ethics issue: Should we edit our children’s genomes?
Features
Humans
The ethics issue: Should we make everyone ‘normal’?
Features
Life
The ethics issue: Should we abandon privacy online?
Features
Life
The ethics issue: Should we give robots the right to kill?
Features
Environment
The ethics issue: Should we let synthetic life forms loose?
Features
Earth
The ethics issue: Should we geoengineer the planet?
Features
Humans
The ethics issue: Should we impose population controls?
Features
Life
The ethics issue: Should we colonise other planets?
Features
Life
The ethics issue: Should we stop doing science?
Features
Earth
How Aboriginal knowledge can help the world combat wildfires
Features
Space
Premier exoplanet hunter on finding the first alien world
Features
Culture
Humans
How the living world was changed, by the woman who changed it
CRISPR gene editing has delivered on its every scientific promise. Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg's book gives a generous account of this towering achievement
Culture
Technology
Futuristic artwork captures sounds to celebrate famous airfield
Culture
Humans
How Californian design helped us to transform the world
Culture
Regulars
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