This week's magazine
18 November 2017
Issue 3152
Editor's picks
News
Health
Why the male infertility crisis could be good news for women
News
Humans
Grand delusions: Why we all believe the weirdest things
Features
Humans
Wrong division: How maths can save democracy from gerrymandering
Features
Health
We’re heading for a male fertility crisis and we’re not prepared
Features
Environment
The ingenious priest who discovered how bats ‘see’ in the dark
Features
Table of contents
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Health
Digital drug tells your doctor when you’ve taken your medicine
FDA approves an antipsychotic pill containing an electronic sensor that activates when it hits stomach fluid and sends a message to a smartphone-linked patch
News
Health
NHS reforms have failed to boost community-based care in England
News
Earth
Bad news: Carbon emissions have suddenly started rising again
News
IBM has built two new quantum computers with 20 and 50 qubits
News
60 Seconds
News
Space
The ‘space nation’ Asgardia just launched its first satellite
News
Earth
Big aftershocks could well hit Iran and Iraq in next 48 hours
News
Health
Brain implant boosts human memory by mimicking how we learn
News
Humans
Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species
News
Environment
Watch a monkey floss its teeth with a bird feather
News
Life
Porpoises twist laws of physics to aim their focused sonar beams
News
Space
Should we seed life through the cosmos using laser-driven ships?
News
Health
How social stress makes your brain vulnerable to depression
News
Technology
Tinfoil hat for your router stops bad guys snooping your Wi-Fi
News
Space
Giant star smash-up may have made the biggest neutron star ever
News
Environment
Giant coconut crab sneaks up on a sleeping bird and kills it
News
Humans
Why people ruin others’ lives by exposing all their data online
News
Health
Gluten-sensitive? It may actually be a carb making you ill
News
Space
Neptune’s other moons were normal until Triton crashed the party
News
Environment
Charge your phone using ambient light and printed solar cells
News
Life
Prairie vole partners split up if one drinks more than the other
News
Technology
Grow fake versions of rare delicacies like sea urchin at home
News
Space
Tracking the first interstellar asteroid back to its home star
News
Health
Daytime injuries heal twice as fast as wounds sustained at night
News
Health
Coffee and plant-based diets linked to lower heart failure risk
News
Physics
A ‘magic number’ of people walking across a bridge makes it sway
News
Earth
Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbean’s giant ground sloths
News
Technology
Facebook can make your profile pic wink and scowl
News
Analysis
Humans
Biohackers are using CRISPR on their DNA and we can’t stop it
People are starting to alter their own DNA with cheap, easy gene-editing technology. Is it time to regulate CRISPR?
News
Humans
Power really can corrupt people. Here’s what to do about it
News
Earth
When it comes to climate, Donald Trump is in a club by himself
News
Health
Medical cannabis vendors must stop making bogus health claims
News
Features
Health
We’re heading for a male fertility crisis and we’re not prepared
Fertility has been considered a woman's problem for so long, but sperm counts are dropping and men have a ticking clock too. It's time to redress the balance
Features
Humans
Wrong division: How maths can save democracy from gerrymandering
Features
Humans
Grand delusions: Why we all believe the weirdest things
Features
Environment
The ingenious priest who discovered how bats ‘see’ in the dark
Features