Health
Is modern life making today’s teenagers more depressed?
News
This week's magazine
4 November 2017
Issue 3150
Editor's picks
Technology
Bitcoin: what a waste of resources
News
Humans
The very first living thing is still alive inside each one of us
Features
Environment
The tortoise-riding banker who collected the natural world
Features
Physics
Quantum code: why building the ultimate computer is the easy bit
Features
Humans
Chill factors: The everyday things that make us see ghosts
Features
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Health
First results from young blood Alzheimer鈥檚 trial are criticised
The results from the first trial of young blood as a treatment for Alzheimer鈥檚 have been announced, but how the study was done is coming under criticism
News
Environment
Sharks now protected no matter whose waters they swim in
News
Earth
Climate change will kill millions but you knew that already
News
Earth
We have four years fewer to slash carbon emissions than thought
News
Earth
60 Seconds
News
Environment
People who illegally kill birds of prey are getting away with it
News
Health
Opioid crisis: Trump suggests telling young people drugs are bad
News
Health
Alzheimer鈥檚 may be able to spread through blood transfusions
News
Environment
A legal trade in rhino horn could be twice as big as illegal one
News
Space
We may have found 20 habitable worlds hiding in plain sight
News
Humans
Bitcoin mining uses more energy than Ecuador 鈥� but there鈥檚 a fix
News
Environment
How a tiny shrimp fires a savage shock wave using just its claw
News
Earth
A third of animals are vanishing as roads spread through forests
News
Health
Donor organs created by dissolving and rebuilding pig livers
News
Life
The first ancestors of giant pandas probably lived in Europe
News
Space
Boiling water on Mars could make the planet’s sand levitate
News
Health
Space changes how your brain thinks and it starts right away
News
Physics
Light鈥檚 quantum weirdness survives after going to space and back
News
Humans
Want to think outside of the box? Try sniffing a placebo
News
Space
We may have just seen the first comet from another solar system
News
People who can’t see fireworks can feel them with new display
News
Environment
Female birds that used to be silent are now singing like males
News
Environment
Mussel-inspired plastic could make self-repairing body armour
News
Health
We鈥檝e evolved an even more powerful form of CRISPR gene editing
News
Environment
Kitchen counter bio-lab lets you make edible gloop from cells
News
Space
We now know more on the origins of weird duck-shaped comet 67P
News
Health
Gaming addiction probably isn鈥檛 a real condition, study suggests
News
Health
Early menopause is more likely if you鈥檝e ever been underweight
News
Analysis
Humans
UK鈥檚 plan to tackle 鈥榗rack cocaine鈥� of gambling lacks evidence
Fixed-odds betting terminals suck in problem gamblers with the lure of quick wins, but few studies have investigated how to reduce their harm
News
Health
Is modern life making today’s teenagers more depressed?
News
Good news: A robot has been hired to care for our old folk
News
Earth
UN climate events are a wasted opportunity for public engagement
News
Earth
Ban on weedkiller glyphosate won’t save anyone from cancer
News
Features
Humans
The very first living thing is still alive inside each one of us
A cellular machine so powerful that it gave rise to all of life and created our marble planet can tell us how it all began
Features
Physics
Quantum code: why building the ultimate computer is the easy bit
Features
Humans
Chill factors: The everyday things that make us see ghosts
Features
Environment
The tortoise-riding banker who collected the natural world
Features
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: A quacking idea to use ducks as research assistants
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
Spin a yarn
Last Word
Peculiar pretzels
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Light at the limit
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Winding up…
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