Technology
People without electricity could end up living the energy dream
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This week's magazine
23 December 2017
Issue 3157
On the cover
Editor's picks
Humans
Well-being will suffer if we don鈥檛 trump the anti-science trend
News
Life
Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis
Features
Humans
Calendar synaesthesia: The people who can see time
Features
Environment
Grapes of wrath: How a New World import destroyed French wine
Features
Environment
New blues: The quest to make the world鈥檚 rarest colour
Features
Humans
How bumbling British boffins became a standing Russian joke
Features
Earth
Bright skies at night: The riddle of the nocturnal sun
Features
Environment
Busy doing nothing: How sloths mastered life in the slow lane
Features
Earth
England’s soggy place names could predict the climate future
Features
Environment
The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears
Features
Technology
The epic robot fails that say AI will never rule the world
Features
Physics
Missives impossible: How gravity fell victim to fake news
Features
Humans
We are not amused: Victorian experiments not to try at home
Features
Environment
The holly hunters banking berries to save a species
Features
Earth
鈥橲no substitute: The ecological cost of fake flakes on the piste
Features
Environment
Cheep taste: The birds that adorn their nests with tat
Features
Our work matters
Features
Table of contents
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Health
Exclusive: Most premature baby ever to survive born at 22 weeks
A baby born more than four months before her due date has been revealed as the youngest premature baby ever to survive. The girl is now a healthy 5-year-old
News
Technology
Drone-controlled movie cameras catch stunts from every angle
News
Space
Exclusive: NASA has begun plans for a 2069 interstellar mission
News
Environment
Zombie fungus infects fruit flies and turns them into slaves
News
Physics
Space-time and gravity might be born from the quantum world
News
Earth
Young female monkeys use deer as ‘outlet for sexual frustration’
News
Earth
Venice may be almost 200 years older than anyone thought
News
Space
Mysterious streaks seen on Saturn鈥檚 moons could be ancient rings
News
Technology
Wound scanner shows bacteria glowing if your body is infected
News
Health
A family in Italy doesn鈥檛 feel pain because of a gene mutation
News
Humans
Six-year-olds will pay to see bad guys get their comeuppance
News
Health
Hijacked sperm carry chemo drugs to cervical cancer cells
News
Health
TB, or not TB? At last, a urine test can diagnose it quickly
News
Environment
This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era
News
Great tits avoid bad food after seeing grossed-out friends
News
Space
NASA has discovered our solar system鈥檚 twin with 8 planets
News
Technology
Robot that’s the width of a hair masters Pac-Man and cuts cheese
News
Space
The tiny space rock New Horizons is headed for may have a moon
News
Space
2018 preview: Return to the moon as eight missions are planned
News
Health
2018 preview: Bioelectricity tweak can regenerate missing limbs
News
Humans
2018 preview: Get ready to meet your newest long-lost ancestor
News
Health
2018 preview: Opioids will kill tens of thousands more people
News
Life
2018 preview: Thousands of mystery lifeforms to be revealed
News
Technology
2018 preview: Bitcoin and ICO bubbles are set to burst
News
Health
2018 preview: Gene therapy treats disease while in the womb
News
Physics
2018 preview: Last chance for new physics at the LHC for years
News
Space
2018 preview: Epic mission to Mercury will unravel its mysteries
News
Technology
2018 preview: Quantum computers to overtake ordinary machines
News
2017 review: The 12 best science and tech stories of the year
News
Analysis
Technology
People without electricity could end up living the energy dream
Solar power is giving millions of people access to electricity for the first time 鈥� could they bypass traditional fossil fuel grids altogether?
News
Earth
Why 2018 is gearing up to be a tipping point for climate action
News
Health
Anti-vax views must not derail France’s compulsory vaccine law
News
Humans
Children are becoming problem gamblers due to a legal loophole
News
Features
Our work matters
The world needs a safe and sustainable supply of food. That鈥檚 why Syngenta聽is looking for world-class scientists to join its Product Safety group
Features
Environment
Busy doing nothing: How sloths mastered life in the slow lane
Features
Environment
New blues: The quest to make the world鈥檚 rarest colour
Features
Technology
The epic robot fails that say AI will never rule the world
Features
Earth
England’s soggy place names could predict the climate future
Features
Humans
How bumbling British boffins became a standing Russian joke
Features
Environment
The holly hunters banking berries to save a species
Features
Humans
We are not amused: Victorian experiments not to try at home
Features
Environment
Grapes of wrath: How a New World import destroyed French wine
Features
Earth
Bright skies at night: The riddle of the nocturnal sun
Features
Life
Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis
Features
Environment
The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears
Features
Environment
Cheep taste: The birds that adorn their nests with tat
Features
Earth
鈥橲no substitute: The ecological cost of fake flakes on the piste
Features
Humans
Calendar synaesthesia: The people who can see time
Features
Physics
Missives impossible: How gravity fell victim to fake news
Features
Culture
Elf Lands: The new fantasy
When producers seek a rival to Game of Thrones, who better to call than M. John Harrison? He's famous for this sort of thing. What could possibly go wrong?
Culture
Environment
The Great Northern Expedition: triumph or tragedy?
Culture
Physics
Exploring the universe 鈥� and how we found our place in it
Culture
Environment
A show uniting art and nature that should just be experienced
Culture
The Dark Judges from 2000 AD: No Future
Culture
