Health
Restarting dead people’s hearts lets doctors reuse their organs
News
This week's magazine
16 December 2017
Issue 3156
On the cover
Editor's picks
Humans
The world urgently needs critical thinking, not gut feeling
News
Humans
Effortless thinking: The god-shaped hole in your brain
Features
Humans
Effortless thinking: Why we’re all born to be status quo fans
Features
Humans
Hoax or not? Three ancient texts with controversial origins
Features
Humans
How World War Zero wrecked three Bronze Age civilisations
Features
Humans
Effortless thinking: It pays to resist revenge’s sweet taste
Features
Humans
Effortless thinking: The fake news that takes us all in
Features
Space
Planet X: We are closing in on the solar system’s new occupant
Features
Humans
Effortless thinking: Why stereotyping is an evolutionary trap
Features
Humans
Effortless thinking: Adapting our need to feel part of the gang
Features
Humans
Effortless thinking: We’re all suckers for a celebrity
Features
Humans
Effortless thinking: Why life is more than a zero-sum game
Features
Humans
Effortless thinking: Beware the voice of your inner child
Features
Humans
Effortless thinking: Thoughtlessly thoughtless
Features
Table of contents
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Health
Weaponised microwave may be behind alleged sonic attacks in Cuba
Headaches, nausea and hearing loss felt by US diplomats in Cuba might be the result of a beam of pulsed microwaves in which the microwaves are heard as sound
News
Space
Trump directs NASA to send astronauts to the moon and then Mars
News
Earth
Africa鈥檚 giraffes are being slaughtered by Joseph Kony’s army
News
Technology
Bitcoin futures trading opens as cryptocurrency’s price soars
News
Health
Antisense therapy promises to slow Huntington鈥檚 disease
News
Environment
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News
Health
Fentanyl considered for execution cocktail by two US states
News
Environment
Nomadic birds in danger after spate of wildfires in key wetland
News
Life
We鈥檙e homing in on the pathways that shape sexual orientation
News
Space
Mars overdue a planet-wide dust storm that could harm the rovers
News
Health
Fasting may boost brainpower by giving neurons more energy
News
Environment
Giant tortoises are rare today but once roamed four continents
News
Space
Ancient black holes ruled out as source of all dark matter
News
Earth
Ancient microbes caused Earth鈥檚 first ever global warming
News
Environment
Sad 鈥榩igs鈥� have been filmed apparently mourning a dead friend
News
Humans
Robot’s terrible jokes are a new test of machine intelligence
News
Physics
Most distant quasar ever seen is way too big for our universe
News
Physics
Superheated water makes microwaved eggs explode when you dig in
News
Health
A boy is missing the vision bit of his brain but can still see
News
Environment
Record-breaking two-tonne fish is the heaviest of its kind
News
Space
That interstellar asteroid could be a shard of a shredded planet
News
Health
Daughters of older mums are more likely to never have children
News
Health
Gruesome eyeball wounds patched up with squirt of smart glue
News
Earth
‘Scary’ spider photos on Facebook are revealing new species
News
Technology
Food delivery robots are teaching themselves how to cross roads
News
Space
Bizarre supernova may be powered by hidden disc of dust and gas
News
Technology
How we breathe between words can be used to identify us
News
Analysis
Health
Restarting dead people’s hearts lets doctors reuse their organs
With a growing shortage of organ donors, doctors are now considering restarting dead people's hearts or even taking organs from patients who are technically alive
News
Health
A grim winter looms for UK hospitals but there’s an easy cure
News
Humans
Who will really benefit from the coming smart-city revolution?
News
Health
Joke Christmas medical journal papers make unfunny bad science
News
Features
Humans
Effortless thinking: Thoughtlessly thoughtless
Why are the ideas that come most effortlessly to us often misguided, asks Graham Lawton
Features
Humans
Effortless thinking: Why life is more than a zero-sum game
Features
Humans
Effortless thinking: Beware the voice of your inner child
Features
Humans
Effortless thinking: We’re all suckers for a celebrity
Features
Humans
Effortless thinking: Why stereotyping is an evolutionary trap
Features
Humans
Effortless thinking: Why we’re all born to be status quo fans
Features
Humans
Effortless thinking: Adapting our need to feel part of the gang
Features
Humans
Effortless thinking: The god-shaped hole in your brain
Features
Humans
Effortless thinking: It pays to resist revenge’s sweet taste
Features
Humans
Effortless thinking: The fake news that takes us all in
Features
Space
Planet X: We are closing in on the solar system’s new occupant
Features
Humans
Hoax or not? Three ancient texts with controversial origins
Features
Humans
How World War Zero wrecked three Bronze Age civilisations
Features
